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Contrary to popular misconception, reinventing the wheel is usually the laziest option for average ideas. The case for investigating precedent rests not on saved effort but on politics of credit apportionment and tipping a hat to tradition.
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If anything, for a simple idea, finding and reusing an existing version of your original idea and forging an adopted-ancestor relationship creates work and overhead. Of course if you already knew the old idea and modify it, it’s easier. Tradition is good for complex ideas.
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