>>>Bet when considering the value of analysis always remember the words of the wise old rabbi ( Menachim Bazian ) "The quicker you get to the keyboard the longer the app will take."
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>I once saw a pool hustler who could run a 9 Ball table without pausing between shots- sometimes in less than a couple of minutes.
>His advice:
>"You think long.. you think wrong."

I grew up in a neighborhood where we shot nine-ball in a pool hall and then I went to college on scholarship with a bunch of rich kids who had tables in their rec rooms and thought they were Eddie Felson because they could beat all their cousins at 8 ball. Kept me in spending money.

Those guys who can run the table again and again the the guys who have practicing so much and played so many games that right after the break they already know every shot they are going to take. Those of us who can quickly design an app in our heads while the client is explaining the business problem are not failing to do design but are thinking in patterns based on a lot of experience and a methodology refined in solving many different problems and anticipating the stuff that will come up down the road.

I'm sure you'll agree that a lot of good design might not take thinking about it too long - as long as you've got the experience to see the patterns the way that 9 ball hustler knows before he takes the first shot just *how* he will run the table. ( and lord knows this pays better ) <s>