Best practices are other people's solutions to other people's problems.

They codify what worked once, somewhere else, under different constraints.

Independent process means building your own map from your actual data, advantages, and constraints.

You iterate on your process, not someone else's playbook.

The market rewards originality of execution, not compliance with consensus.

While competitors copy yesterday's winning moves, you're building tomorrow's advantage.

Best practices make you predictable.

Independent process makes you unreachable.