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From: mark@intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: "Cognitive queueing" (was: Typing versus Handwriting)
Summary: me too
Keywords: "Aha!" method
Message-ID: <206@intek01.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 89 17:16:11 GMT
References: <2203@trantor.harris-atd.com>
Organization: Integration Technologies Inc. (Intek), Bellevue WA
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Chuck Musciano:
> 
>      This is on a tangent, but my discussion about my programming techniques
> started me thinking (always dangerous :-).  When I am faced with a problem
> to be solved (requiring some programmed solution) I sort of think about it
> initially, and then don't think about it.  Sometime later, maybe days, maybe
> weeks, the full solution just pops into my head, and I sit down and type all
> the code in.  If I try to force the issue, and type in the code before I
> am ready, the results are usually disastrous.  If I am patient, I usually
> wind up with an elegant solution.

I've never been this systematic about it, but it works a lot the same way
for me.  Not just programming: I'm an amateur standup comic, and I get
my best stuff in the shower, or just lying in bed Saturday morning.

I don't know what a design method based on this would look like, but I
can imagine a great name for it: the Musciano Method, a.k.a.
"Goof off 'til you Get It."

Mark McWiggins
Integration Technologies, Inc. (Intek)
1400 112th Ave. SE #202
Bellevue WA  98004
(206) 455-9935
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