They jumped out at me too. In software specifically, I’ve seen a lot of Best Practices come and go over the years and they’ve often contradicted the previous on

They jumped out at me too. In software specifically, I’ve seen a lot of Best Practices come and go over the years and they’ve often contradicted the previous ones. Plus there are situations where I can, with good conscience, say “best practices say we should do X here, but because of reasons A, B, and C, I think we should do it this way instead.” The real trick is a) getting your team to agree on what practices to follow, and b) agreeing that if you’re going to deviate from them that there’s an expectation that you’ll need to justify that. “I did it this way because it’s the first thing I thought of” vs “I reasoned my way through this and this is why we should do it this way” are very different situations, even if they result in the same code.