First captured on Josh Comeau’s site here: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/surprising-truth-about-pixels-and-accessibility/#quick-tricks-vs-mental-models
This is a great pillar in the ‘I don’t like the term “best practices”’ argument.
It's better to build an intuition than it is to rely on rote practice and memorization.
Training our brains to spot the patterns in our solutions is better than maintaining an ever-growing rolodex of piecemeal solutions.