Teddy Daiell shares an article designed to develop the practice of questioning every assumption you think you know about a given problem with first principles thinking.  Short Description: Reduce a complex situation down to its core, objective facts, removing any subjective preconceptions and assumptions, and then employ reason and logic to reach novel conclusions. Long(er) Description: “[Separate] the underlying ideas or facts from any assumptions based on them. What remains are the essentials. If you know the first principles of…