You

know?

When I was working in the NOC?

After I would get set up for the shift I would open 16, 18 tabs (Nicholas hated it when I would do it at home. :-) whatever interested me that evening and then, one by one I would read them all. Then I would go back, start over, find more articles to read and then work my way through them. Others played on their phones, their laptops, watched movies, argued with their significant other whatever. 

After doing it for so long you start thinking "There is some purpose here I'm not seeing yet." I mean you just sit there and read and read and read and you think nobody else has this much time to read this much information consistently over the course of years, what gives? This for a person who was already more informed on most issues that his contemporaries long before he started doing this.

Now we've got a generation that sees a Internet meme and thinks they've read some 20 page white paper on some policy position.

Lets just say, things make more sense these days :-).

Love you Lucy.