Apologies HN for the brief comment, but I wanted to make excited noises about how similar your process echoed with how I'd describe my own (especially the "magi

Apologies HN for the brief comment, but I wanted to make excited noises about how similar your process echoed with how I'd describe my own (especially the "magic time where I try to take the whole problem space into my head" aspect) but within programming. Although, to be fair, even when I'm doing an isolated component on paper programming seems to necessitate that I keep the "local state" up to some reasonable logic isolation boundary in my head as well. It's oddly reassuring to find that I'm not as inefficient/off in left field (with my thought processes) as I thought I was, for whatever reason this isn't a conversation I've had much with other peers. I'll try to make this post more useful than self congratulatory by echoing: Notes notes notes. Whiteboards, sticky notes, and a giant perpetually updated todo list in an email draft (discount-evernote :) ), have been my saving graces, even while my memory gets worse as I age.