The speaker says physics trains people to simplify systems through successive-order approximations and identify underlying patterns in noisy observations, a way of thinking he considers broadly applicable across industry.

“understanding that there are there's a first order approximation that describes most of the system but then there's a second order third order fourth order terms that may or may not be present and the idea that you're observing like a very noisy system but actually there's like these fundamental frequencies that you can abstract away like when a physicist walks into the class and they say oh assume there's a spherical cow and dot dot dot and everyone laughs at that but actually is brilliant it's a brilliant thinking that's very generalizable across the industry because”