6-3b2d1 Don't reinvent the wheel. Copy and paste. Save keystrokes.

“I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don’t believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody’s that smart.” – Charlie Munger

“I always have a quotation for everything—it saves original thinking” – Lord Peter Wimsey

Related:

• 1-2g2j3 Life itself is iconic (imitation-copying)
• 2-1b2b ‘Second-order thinking’ - Solve the root cause of a problem (prevention) and not symptoms. Be smart-lazy.
• 9-1b0a When you have learned something, the way it exists in your mind is the same as the way it exists in the mind of the inventor