Reinvent the Wheel, Level 1 (Level 2 coming soon)

Convention has always been a problem. A momentum dampener. I'm all for community and shared knowledge and standing on the backs of an infinite regression of tortoises. But hear me out. If you start from scratch on something, you have to opportunity to reexamine old problems that may have been hastily and inappropriately concluded. That and what if the baseline conclusion that works for one thing is actually a hindrance to another? This, much like making a meal from scratch is a great opportunity to really gain some knowledge about what goes into the creation of a single thing.

Honestly, I think people would do well to go back to the drawing board over more things. I myself would be content rarely if ever to leave the drawing board. I don't want to discount the process itself, but if you don't spend enough time preparing, then you're going to have a lopsided table, as any measure-twice-cut-oncer worth their tool belt will tell you.

Literally, I'd like to see someone try to reinvent the wheel. But also I'd like to see people doing this with all the things in their lives they can or can't imagine changing. More to the point. Pick something you think about a lot of a theoretical. For me it is something like mobility, and not in a high tech tinification of the world sort of way, but a unhinged from the wall, free to roam the dirt roads sort of way. (But still, thanks tiny tech, cause you're going to help make that a reality.) But really, my point is that my theoretical interest in pulling up life by the root stalks is only as good as I can get down to the very basic practical parts of my life and enact it. And when you start applying this theoretical level to your practical, real-world life, that is when you are really reinventing things. Things like yourself and the world around you. Which are pretty good things to reinvent if you ask me. Cause I don't see anyone else doing it for you.