Well in web development, where I work, we use web frameworks that take care of the stuff that never changes between jobs, the constants. So I guess the question is, what are the constants for you between clients? Are you starting literally from scratch every job?

edit: What the other commenter said about documentation nailed it. THat’s where I was going anyway. You have to figure out the patterns you’re _already using_ to deliver software to your clients. “Reify” them. Make them into “official” tools in your official professional toolkit :)

As you get more experience recognizing the patterns you’ve already discovered with reason and instinct. You’ll start to recognize patterns between tools, and patterns between problems. And you will see more opportunities for tools/techniques that solve wide swaths of problems.

I have a kitchen drawer full of really handy React hook I’ve written over the past couple years, for example, that are generalized enough to work anywhere.