tl;dr: The author advocates for "stealing" as a deliberate creative skill, drawing on Virgil Abloh's "3% approach"—rebuilding an admired work almost exactly, then changing only ~3%. To redesign their startup Kibu's marketing site, they cloned Mintlify's site pixel-by-pixel, which forced them to understand every design decision and ultimately led their own instincts to drift toward ~50% original work. The takeaway: originality is overrated; efficient problem-solving means finding who's done it well before you, copying it deeply, and letting your meaningful deviations emerge naturally.