# Science and invention: a council of first principles

> A ready-made council for research bets and technical decisions: the right question, the finished picture, and the assumption nobody checked.

Three minds that worked far ahead of their evidence. Albert Einstein reframes the question, Nikola Tesla describes the finished machine, Ada Lovelace finds the unverified assumption inside the plan.

## Who is at the table

- [Albert Einstein](https://talktogoats.com/en/ask/albert-einstein.md): first principles
- [Nikola Tesla](https://talktogoats.com/en/ask/nikola-tesla.md): vision of the future
- Ada Lovelace: technology and imagination

This is the table for research and deep-tech work whose payoff is years away, for technical decisions that lock you in for a decade, and for problems that have not moved in months because everyone is answering the wrong question. It is the room to open when the constraint everyone repeats has never been sourced, and when a vague vision needs to become a specification.

Bring the project the market does not want yet, the architecture choice you cannot reverse, or the result that refuses to reproduce. The three of them differ on where to start — the framing, the finished state, or the hidden assumption — and the summary tells you which door to try first, with a week of concrete steps behind it.

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