I think Adriaan's description of having it "feel" almost emotional rather than strictly intellectual is a good example of his intuition and experience playing a

I think Adriaan's description of having it "feel" almost emotional rather than strictly intellectual is a good example of his intuition and experience playing a role rather than a pure academic understanding. I think this was described in Malcom Gladwell's Blink. I have a similar methodology which I coined "dumb-ass software development." The basic premise is that you're meant to build software that isn't too clever.