I prefer women with a past. They are always so damned amusing to talk to.
History is not just the story of the past, but a mirror to the present and a window to the future.
And if you take Warren Buffett and watched him with a time clock, I would say half of all the time he spends is sitting on his ass and reading. And a big chunk of the rest of the time is spent talking one on one either on the telephone or personally with highly gifted people whom he trusts and who trust him. In other words, it looks quite academic, all this worldly success.
The best architecture comes from the synthesis of all the forces that are acting upon it.