It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.
I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.
I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.
One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.
I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.
I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.