You're spot on. Archimedes said he could move the world with the right lever. Figuring out the right "angle" or abstraction for a task reduces the effort requir

You're spot on. Archimedes said he could move the world with the right lever. Figuring out the right "angle" or abstraction for a task reduces the effort required and often reduces the complexity of the solution, and that happens more often "offline" for me than it does while staring at the code / problem.