Throw away your first draft of your code https://ntietz.com/blog/throw-away-your-first-draft/ "The next time you start on a major project, I want you to write code for a couple of days and then delete it all. Just throw it away." ____ I'm not proposing that you actually try this without thinking through the possible (negative) consequences first but, on occasion, when I've had to rewrite some code - type, type, delete, oops, where did that file go? - I've found that the rewritten version of my code has always been shorter and cleaner."