[eadmund]

> Ever since I have tried to think “can I solve this problem in a way that reuses known conventions or do I really, really have to do something different?” The answer, once I can control my ego, is nearly always “I don’t need to do something different”.

This really is the way of wisdom. Not that there’s not room for improvement — there is — but it is normally more effective to attack the problem at hand than try to solve ancillary problems as well.