ABSTRACT
I once read where the painter Mark Rothko said that the raw material of creativity was time. If you’ve got enough time your mind can flit from topic to topic in what seems like random meandering. Often, you begin to notice relationships among the topics and that meandering turns out to be a purposeful path through coherent and interrelated ideas. You start with a daydream and end up with a philosophy. It’s good to remember how valuable that kind of unmeasured time can be, especially when you get busy.
