What are you
assuming?

Most people solve problems by adapting what already exists. This course teaches you to tear problems apart and rebuild from the ground up.

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THE THREE LAYERS

Every problem has three layers. Most people only see one.

LAYER 1

DESIGN LAYER

"How it's currently structured"

REMOVE THIS
LAYER 2

COMPONENT LAYER

"What subsystems and inputs are needed"

QUESTION THIS
LAYER 3

PHYSICS LAYER

"What are the absolute physical/economic limits?"

KEEP THIS

THE TEARING DOWN PROTOCOL

Four steps to first principles

1

State the problem AS THE CURRENT SOLUTION

"Not: How do we X? But: The current solution is X."

2

Remove everything that isn't physics or human nature

3

Identify the TRUE problem space

4

Rebuild from zero with only physics as your constraint

CASE STUDY

Assumption-bound vs. First-principles rebuilt

"Students sit in rooms. A teacher talks. Bells ring. This is education."

"People go to doctors when sick. Doctors own the answers. This is healthcare."

INDUSTRIES

What if we rebuilt them?

Education

CURRENT: Students need rooms, bells, and teachers to learn.

REBUILD: Skill transmission at scale, adapted to individual cognition. No rooms required.

Healthcare

CURRENT: Sick people go to doctors. Doctors own the answers.

REBUILD: Health outcomes at minimum cost. No reason this requires a physical office visit.

Transportation

CURRENT: Owning a car is the default. Roads are the infrastructure.

REBUILD: Mobility as a service. Vehicles as software. Cities designed around people.

Finance

CURRENT: Banks are the intermediaries. Interest rates are the price of money.

REBUILD: Money is data. Protocols replace institutions. The bank is an algorithm.

Housing

CURRENT: People buy houses. Mortgages are the only path. Location is fixed.

REBUILD: Housing as a service. Buildings as platforms. Density enables affordability.

COURSE OUTPUT

What you leave with

TOOLS

  • → The Assumption Audit
  • → The Tearing Down Protocol
  • → The 3-Layer Decomposition Method
  • → Personal Decomposition Framework

MINDSETS

  • → Question every "that's just how it is"
  • → Distinguish physics from convention
  • → Rebuild before iterating
  • → Comfort with dismantling what you love

COURSE STRUCTURE

6 sessions, 90 minutes each

Session 1 · 90 min

What Are You Assuming?

Session 2 · 90 min

The Decomposition Method

Session 3 · 90 min

Case Studies — Industry Deep Dive

Session 4 · 90 min

The Rebuild Workshop

Session 5 · 90 min

Personal Application

Session 6 · 90 min

Final Presentations + Debrief

"The problems worth solving don't reveal themselves to people who stop at 'that's how it's done.'"

This course teaches you to hear what they're actually asking.