The Feynman [Problem-Solving] Algorithm:
(1) Write down the problem.
(2) Think real hard.
(3) Write down the solution.

Dick's method is this. You write down the problem. You think very hard. ... Then you write down the answer. (From an interview with Sidney Coleman, reported by James Gleick in Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992), p. 315.)