Elon Musk Explains First Principles Thinking" (battery-cost re-derivation)

Musk, E. (2013). Elon Musk Explains First Principles Thinking" (battery-cost re-derivation).

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2013

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• Defamiliarization
  • In innovation and product strategy, assumption-challenging exercises, first-principles re-derivation, and naïve customer observation defamiliarize product-and-market assumptions to recover design optionality.

    This sourceContrasts reasoning by analogy (accepting an industry's conventional cost as given) with first-principles re-derivation from the physical constituents — the battery-pack example breaking the price down to its raw-material spot value — defamiliarizing an accepted cost structure to recover design optionality.

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