The Growth Project

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First Principles Are the New Scarce Skill

Hosted by Sam & Maya · · 6:54

About this episode

When the model can build almost anything, the bottleneck moves from how to what and why. The scarce skill is deciding what's actually worth building.

Sam and Maya unpack First Principles Are the New Scarce Skill from the field notes, the argument, the numbers, and the practical moves, in a short, sharp conversation.

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Chapters

  1. 0:03Fast builds, wrong features
  2. 0:46Framing is the new bottleneck
  3. 1:41AI amplifies clarity or confusion
  4. 2:44Decompose problems to bedrock
  5. 3:55Better questions, not better tools
  6. 5:23Ask why, practice subtraction