Re:What Is the Morning Writing Effect? (2011)
by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @12:13PM
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I do that sometimes, too. Sometimes it works better if I do it somewhere other than my desk. I can go outside with a notepad, sit on the lawn, look at the clouds, and work out an algorithm.
Oh, I do! I mean not all the time, but if I have a particularly hard problem I'm working on, pencil and paper and coffee in the morning help me work it out. You're not going to write out pages and pages of code, obviously. But there's just something about scratching out the algorithm or sketching a design freehand on paper that helps my thinking process.
Bonus: I don't tend to need to rely on IDEs writing code for me. And Whiteboards don't scare me in the least.