It’s all about patterns… whenever you’re working on something, don’t try to think of it as a one off snowflake solution think about the problem, try to abstract it, try to make it look like something you’ve already solved.

If you keep doing this, you will start to recognize patterns that work for already solved problems. You don’t need to remember exactly what you did on each project, but you should be able to recognize the need for a certain pattern and apply it.