What was important will always be important

This is a lesson many have learned the hard way.  Some people call it basic training, the fundamentals, blocking and tackling... No matter how you say it, the foundational things we learned in our earlier days are the things that are still important today.  We tend to spend too much time wrapped up in the details of the complexity of things without regard for the basics.  Thus we build a really solid whatever on top of a weak foundation.  Every idea worth investigating is worth planning from the bottom up and the top down.