Two years into my programming career, there's still almost nothing I do that isn't just implementing the best way someone else thought to do it. And I still hav

Two years into my programming career, there's still almost nothing I do that isn't just implementing the best way someone else thought to do it. And I still have a lot more to learn before I would start off on my own. My only problem with best practices is that sometimes there are too many and living up to them all would take all your time. And some of them are just evangelists for niche ideas and it's hard to tell.