Learn patterns from the past; do not copy-paste them
What worked before may not work as it is. The past still holds valuable lessons if we identify patterns and modify them for the present.
What worked in the past may not work as it is in the future. What happened in the past still holds valuable lessons. The work is to identify patterns and make the modifications the new conditions require.
Nostalgia and amnesia are both failures. One freezes an old form. The other pretends history has nothing to teach. Pattern literacy sits between them.
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