Think Like a Rocket Scientist – Varol (2020)

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title: Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
authors: Ozan Varol
year: 2020
publisher: PublicAffairs
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Faint signals are whispers from the future 18
First Principles thinking allows you to see the obvious hiding in plain sight 15
Backcasting works backward from a desired outcome 14
Premortem works backward from an undesirable outcome in order to prevent it 11
Monkey First principle dictates building the hardest part of the moonshot first 9
Near misses lead to taking unwise risks 8
Path dependence shapes what we do next 8
The default carries immense power 5
Occam's razor leads to first principles thinking 4