I tend to spend a lot of time in REPL or throwaway unit tests, tinkering out solutions. It helps me think to try things out in practice, sometimes visualising with a diagramming language or canvas. Elixir is especially nice in this regard, the language is well designed for quick prototypes but also has industrial grade inspection and monitoring readily available.
Walks, hikes and strolls are also a good techniques for figuring things out, famously preferred by philosophers like Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.
Sometimes I've brought it up with non-technical bosses how development is actually done, didn't work, they just dug in about monitoring and control and whatnot. Working remote is the way to go, if one can't find good management to sell to.
Walks, hikes and strolls are also a good techniques for figuring things out, famously preferred by philosophers like Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.
Sometimes I've brought it up with non-technical bosses how development is actually done, didn't work, they just dug in about monitoring and control and whatnot. Working remote is the way to go, if one can't find good management to sell to.