Rebuild a Decision from First Principles
Break a decision down to constraints, facts, and assumptions before copying the usual answer.
First principles replace inherited answers with verified building blocks. What changes Most workplace decisions start from analogy: what a competitor did, what last year's plan used, or what a senior person remembers working. Analogy is fast, but it smuggles in assumptions. First-principles thinking slows down long enough to ask what must be true regardless of precedent. The payoff is option creation. Once you separate real constraints from inherited habits, new combinations become visible. You may still choose the old path, but now it is a decision rather than obedience to an unexplained rule. How to use it Ask: what are…
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