>>>It's exhausting. But it runs like art. Some days it impossible, some days it's just the flow. One must resist it, but sometimes one lost. This is why I try to put gaps in the day.
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>>After about twentyfive years of work like that I seriously started curing myself from workaholism. And eventually taught myself to go AFK often and just let my brain process, mostly in the background, what I was doing, just to give it time. Because time wasted on trying out the first solution that comes to mind is that, wasted. Even worse, I get to write even more code to fix what I screwed up because I didn't give myself enough time to think.
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>>Festina lente...
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>I learned that in my early coding days in university. Spend a whole night on a problem. Returned afternoon, solved on first look. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In my running days (until the late 1980's) if I got stuck I would go out for a short run (30 min). Like magic, what I needed to "see" would pop up without my thinking about it.

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