🕯️ Advent of Insight · Day 13 – When Best Practices Fail

The best practice myth promises shortcuts to excellence. But what worked elsewhere was shaped by different people, timing, and tension.
Real learning starts when we adapt principles, not replicate patterns.
Ask: what’s the why behind the practice—and does that why exist here?

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