I'm self-taught with minimal maths and this is something I've used. I started re-learning some basic math for fun and now I find it helpful now to visualize mat

I'm self-taught with minimal maths and this is something I've used. I started re-learning some basic math for fun and now I find it helpful now to visualize mathematical models of some basic runtime characteristics of my programs. A simple example is that I will visualize X number of users firing Y number of requests, and I'll actually imagine this as a live system with various statistical properties (% of errors and the like). It's not typically strictly mathematical—I don't write down many (if any) numbers or symbols—but I'm creating a quantitative model in my mind to think through the behavior of my program when actually in use as opposed to a sequence of logical commands like I usually do.