“And we can do it all by starting from first principles–questioning our assumptions and building something new from the ground up.” Let’s focus on two words: First principles. The concept of ...

We spend so much time and money trying to protect and enforce our rights against others that we overlook threats from within ourselves. The famous physicist, Richard Feynman, said, “The first ...

Eugene Hayden has worked at Google, KPMG, and Boston Consulting Group. He takes an actual case study from a recent interview and solves it by using first principles thinking. The Big 3 companies want ...

This might delay the cases’ final resolutions, but it shouldn’t influence their ultimate outcomes in the platforms’ favor. The cases, at bottom, hinge on the most fundamental of all First Amendment ...

The next time I start a college, I’d like to hire Thomas E. Ricks as the provost. Even before Ricks wrote his excellent new volume First Principles, he would have been a strong choice to direct the ...