Olin Lathrop wrote:
>> And I found over the years that at least for me, it
>> is a lot more fun in the beginning to follow a cookbook recipe,
>
> It was always completely opposite for me.  There was no fun in duplicating
> something someone else did.

Didn't you just describe how you "invented" a switching power supply, and 
power supply decoupling? This sounds an awful lot like reinventing the 
wheel.

What I said was that you can build upon what others have already done, and 
as a result build something new. Various people at various times called it 
"standing on the shoulders of giants", "learning from other people's 
experience", etc.

Vitaliy 

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