5 docs tagged with "first-principles"

Audible 2025 wrap: why I studied Chomsky, Pinker, Hofstadter, Strogatz, Nietzsche and Aristotle instead of prompt engineering.

A 3-minute crisis solved with AI exposes who leads without understanding the work — and why that just got expensive.

Re-reading the incompleteness theorems through what LLMs inherit: the impossibility of total self-validation inside the system itself.

Five operating principles derived from my trajectory. Non-conformism, autodidactism, truth-seeking, happiness through problems, ownership.

Compute is the bottleneck. Bottlenecks become price. Whoever used the cheap window to integrate and redesign now operates at a different level.