“I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it’s like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.”
- Elon Musk
In today's world, math is done in software. Most people do math in a spreadsheet. Engineers do math in engineering software. Most Scientists and Finance professionals do math in Python.
If this is the case, then what skills should be taught in school?
Can your problem be easily solved by a computer?
Bill has 10 apples for sale...
When do you want to retire? What do you have to do in order to make that happen?
What is the opportunity cost of social media screen time?
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