I'd like to add: There's way too much stuff taken as dogmatic best practices when they're really not. Things change, improve, and there may be better approaches

I'd like to add: There's way too much stuff taken as dogmatic best practices when they're really not. Things change, improve, and there may be better approaches already in existence but are ignored because of some high profile person in the community. Keeping an open mind is key to being able to improve and use better approaches.