• Richard Hamming used to have "great thoughts time" - when he would only discuss "big" things, like:
  • "where is the field going?"
  • "what's going to happen in next 10 years?"
• I can't be thinking "great thoughts" all of the time, this is also probably related to "energy levels"
• maybe great thoughts can be thought better when Thinking by Writing
  • they certainly can persist over time, and Knowledge Work Should Accrete

For many years I devoted about 10% of my time (Friday afternoons) to trying to understand what would happen in the future of computing, both as a scientific tool and as shaper of the social world of work and play. In forming your plan for your future you need to distinguish three different questions:

• What is possible?
• What is likely to happen?
• What is desirable to have happen?

— The Art of Doing Science and Engineering - Richard Hamming