I agree it isn't a real job requirement to be able to switch back and forth quickly between thinking and communicating. I really have a hard time decoding what

I agree it isn't a real job requirement to be able to switch back and forth quickly between thinking and communicating. I really have a hard time decoding what another person is thinking when I'm solving a problem. It's like I use the same part of my brain for both things, and it has to reboot to switch between them. To mitigate this I try to constantly verbalize things that I'm thinking anyway, like, "This isn't the OO way to do it, but I think the OO way would be a poor match for the problem," and, "In real code I would model each of these item types with a class, but to save time and hopefully get further with the problem I'm going to model them as lists." The more I talk, the less they talk, and the less often I have to reboot into human mode.