first-principles

Use when user is stuck by industry conventions ("大家都这么做"), faces a new problem with no precedent, or finds current solutions arbitrarily expensive (intuition says "it shouldn't cost this much"). Triggers on Chinese phrases 行业惯例 / 大家都这么做 / 为什么不能 / 这么贵不合理 / 颠覆性 / 从零开始, and English signals "everyone does it this way", "why is it so expensive", "let's think from scratch". Decompose to irreducible physical/logical truths…