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Thomas H Jones II

Selecting against experience insulates the younger worker-bees against the deflating impact of "oh: that thing you were working on is nifty ...what made you decide to do that rather than using <ESTABLISHED_METHOD_A> or <ESTABLISHED_METHOD_B>". I mean, there's plenty of reasons to start from scratch ...but you generally want there to be concrete benefit to the implementing organization than playing into "not invented here/by me" syndrome.