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by euske 1879 days ago
Meta observation: OP says nothing new, but I guess that people have to (re)discover this sort of principles by themselves, no matter how many times they're told by the wise and old.

We often say that we hate reinventing the wheel. But life is actually full of reinventing-the-wheel experiences. Maybe that's the point of a life.

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Do we say we hate reinventing the wheel? I think the reason it’s even an axiom, “don’t reinvent the wheel,” is because it is so very tempting to reinvent the wheel rather than building on established wisdom.