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Comment on Ask HN: Any recommendation from books on First principles thinking?

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First principles thinking

Is a metaphor for using the basics of a field to derive or understand more developed concepts in the same field. So learn the foundations of a topic and then appreciate how they manifest in more complex areas.

There’s no book for this because it’s just a concept and the way to develop it is to study the basics of a specific subject.

It’s a mental model not a thing to be studied in itself…

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