I had a manager who told me I was goofing off too much and not writing enough code. He was happy as long as I was typing on the keyboard. He regarded think time and research as goofing off. He did not want to see me taking notes or scribbling diagrams to help me get my head around something. he considered that goofing off. So, I learned to type all day long as I was thinking. Typing nothing important, but, when he walked past me, I was working.

In the 30+ years I've been a developer, I have encountered few people who really know what it is all about.

Tom