[sdiy] Design Process

[Magnus Danielson]

Tim Stinchcombe wrote:
>> Leave it be for as long as you need 
>> to forget all about the details of how this thing is supposed 
>> to work, then get back to it. This is usually a 
>> week's/month's/year's time.
> 
> This tends to be my default action. Projects are often put down for *years*
> because I can't work them out. In the meantime, my experience increases, and
> hopefully by the time I return to them I then have the
> understanding/wherewithall necessary to be able to solve the problem. Not a
> strategy for getting things done quickly, but *very* satisfying when you
> eventually crack a several-year-old problem!

I tend to realize (year down the lines at times) what was wrong with my 
approach, dig the damn thing up and try again. :)

Problem-solving can be such a passive-thinking process.

Keeping detailed notes and knowing where they are is another things. 
Nothing is so annoying as not finding the details when you just had a 
stroke of things to check on a problem.

At times I can find myself spending three hours to dig through the piles 
just to find THAT paper to read.

Cheers,
Magnus