Here's what I think. Sometimes I am in superstar mode and more often I am not. When I am in superstar mode, I am able to latently process problems ahead of tim

Here's what I think. Sometimes I am in superstar mode and more often I am not. When I am in superstar mode, I am able to latently process problems ahead of time and decompose them. That way when I get to the problems they all seem simple. The rest of the time I have to run up against a problem first, let it sit and see if it decomposes for me, and if not come back and actively try to decompose it. Once I am actually ready to sit down and start coding, all the hard part is over. The question is how much of the hard part can be done latently before I get to it.