Right; when I say "I'm not systematic about it" I mean that I don't purposefully follow a specific algorithm. I would probably benefit from being a bit more systematic, but for the moment, I'm merely trying to "train my intuition".

I would hope that all these algorithms would be applied "non-algorithmically" in Pei Wang's sense-- that is, the ideas from the algorithm should interact dynamically with the rest of my thought process.