I read an article on OS News (one of my dailies) which is called “Why You Shouldn’t Write Your Own Kernel Anymore“.
It’s one of the best editorials I have read on OS News, and tells the story of how the author realized that it was better to make his product work for linux, than trying to make his own OS with this particular product as a part of it.
Transposed to blogging, It’s one of the main reasons why I changed to WordPress from my own blogging software – a lot more people will care and benefit from your work if you make it for an existing system, instead of always wasting your time playing catch-up by copying features from that very system.
Changing to WordPress was part of a larger change in attitude for me. It was just the start, and I think that attitude will get me much further.