Reinvent the Wheel? Why It's the Best Advice You're Ignoring

Reinventing the wheel fosters curiosity, learning, and deeper understanding of existing tools and technologies, leading to innovation and problem-solving.

1. The advice "don't reinvent the wheel" discourages curiosity and exploration.
2. To really understand something, you have to be able to implement a toy version first.
3. Existing solutions have flaws and might not be designed to solve your particular problem.
4. Reinventing the wheel is a way to level up as an engineer.
5. Reinvent for insight, reuse for impact.