In order to grow, you can't start from scratch every time. Leverage your previous work. This is the essence of:

• building a pile of permanent notes
  • Writing is Thinking - an external scaffold for the mind to build on
• having standard processes & templates
• when solving new problems, keep your solution understandable and as reusable as possible for your future self
• keeping previous work accessible, discoverable, and improving on it

If you aren't starting from scratch, but instead starting with the best assets you have, you're minimizing work and creating progressively better projects.

Related Notes

Standardization Enables Creativity

Standard Processes

Master List

Prefer a Long-Term Philosophy

Don’t Reinvent Things

Checklists