Zeroth-Principles Thinking. How does one come up with a truly… | by Bryan Johnson | Future Literacy | Medium

How does one come up with a truly original idea? One that reshapes society for centuries.

Zeroth-Principles Thinking Bryan Johnson 7 min read · Mar 9, 2021 -- 22 Listen Share How does one come up with a truly original idea? One that reshapes society for centuries . Learning about the discovery of the number zero, and its philosophical representation — nothingness — changed my orientation with transformational thinking. My first thought after reading Zero: A Biography of a Dangerous Idea was that I wanted to build a sturdy mental model for exploration of analogously difficult-to-see concepts. I wanted to find capital-Z Zeros. It was intuitively what I had been trying to do for years

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