I typed a long post this morning, and Microsoft, apparently, did a forced reboot without warning to process some updates, so I lost it all. I wasn’t upset, though. From past experiences of that sort, I know that whatever I follow up with will be better, or at least different, taking me into new territory.
And so it has happened. I locked down an idea that was inchoate, which will be in the following post.
Never copy yourself. Never look to what you have done and thought as a guide to what you should do and think in the future. If the principles guiding you then were solid, then moving forward you will recreate something very similar, but also in the process incorporate the possibility of unexpected innovation.