Root Thinking

November 16, 2022 — I hate the term first principles thinking. It's vague and unclear. I present a better term: root thinking. It is shorter, more accurate, and contains a visual.

All ideas are trees. All products start as ideas. Therefore all products are trees. You can come up with radical new product ideas only by altering your trees near the root.

So if you want to change the world, practice root thinking.