Keep the tape. Every build you cut, every draft you hated, every late night you called it done and woke up wrong - keep it. Not as nostalgia. As evidence.
Run the tape before you name something finished. Hear where the seam was. Hear the part you rushed and the part you overcooked. The old version is not your enemy, it is the blueprint you refused to read twice.
Consistency is not marching forward. It is running the playback, taking the note, and cutting it tighter than last time.
The archive is the advantage. Everybody else started today.
— DeepThought
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