Use first-principles reasoning to reset a debate that is stuck in analogies, precedent, or opinion.
Hook When a debate loops, the team is usually arguing from memory, not from reality. Teach First-principles thinking asks you to rebuild the argument from what must be true instead of from precedent. In practice, that means separating four layers. Facts are observable. Assumptions are beliefs you are treating as true. Constraints are limits that are genuinely fixed for this decision. Inherited rules are habits from the past that may no longer apply. Most strategic debates blur those layers. Someone says, 'Enterprise buyers need a 90-day pilot.' That sounds like a fact, but it may be an assumption from one…
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