Craig, I certainly agree that one could use "best practices" and build on those.

Guess you're spot on with the core vs context point - context could do very well from "best practices" - no need to reinvent the basics. Unless you forget that even basics can be rearranged with interesting results.

Ford did a good job in rearranging basics in 1913 - core as well of course, but ten times more cars within six months simply by organising the context differently, not bad that?

Sig: Thanks for stopping by to reply. Clearly the whole thing is somewhat of a semantic point. And I agree that there are many times that what is passed of as 'best practices' are really 'the way it's always been done' (mark cuban had a good post about that several months ago). I started the post with the reference to the Locke' book because in that case 'winning through worst practices' is something I'd recommend.

Later - Craig