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Explore how to use First Principles Thinking and Systems Thinking to improve problem-solving in coding and beyond. Understand key questions and frameworks to analyze systems, identify goals, and develop success metrics that help you navigate and excel in software engineering careers.
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From scratch genre
My talk on Getting Closure on Hooks was cited as a “first principles” talk, as is the follow-up on Concurrent React. I think all talks and blog posts in the From Scratch genre, like this on React Router, this on Redux, or this on the hardware-software interface, are great first principles fodder. There’s even an entire repo on GitHub for building your own X projects!.
You can explain everything
But of course, first principles can be applied far beyond code. The Drake Equation is a well-known first principles decomposition of the number of alien civilizations in our galaxy. You can ...