Bill Gates—one of the most prolific coders in history—was admitting that he needed weeks of not coding just to think? The interview went on to describe how Gates would sit in his office, chair reclined, staring at the ceiling, visualizing the data structures in his mind, rotating them, checking for collisions before typing a single semicolon.
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Elias looked back at his monitor. He had been typing frantically for three days, trying to brute-force a solution. He hadn't spent a single hour just thinking away from the screen. programmers at work pdf