September 1, 2021

Greg Thomas

Reinventing the Wheel

It’s been done, there are no more wheels to invent.

You can make them faster, you can use different materials, you can control them remotely and I’m sure there are a hundred other things you can do to tweak them and make them better.

But you can’t reinvent them.

The same might be for your product, your code, your team – you can’t reinvent it, it’s there, it works, it might need some tweaks, but the base is there.

The old expression is – “don’t throw the baby out with the bath water” (not sure who would ever do this) – so when looking to fix a problem, don’t go straight to reinvention (or doing that throwing the baby thing) – tweak, refactor, redesign.

Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US).  I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.

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