I discovered this by accident years ago, and now "sleeping on it" is absolutely essential to my making progress, in fact it's probably my most important work ha

I discovered this by accident years ago, and now "sleeping on it" is absolutely essential to my making progress, in fact it's probably my most important work hack. I started off by decoupling programming from analysis, doing each at a different time in a different place. This led to doing analysis at bed time. I may not have figured things out that night, but invariably, elegant solutions "came to me" in the next day or two. I have talked about this many times here. My earliest comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=191275 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=191275