I Thought I was an Infomaniac...
... but it turns out that I'm just normally infovorous. USC professor Irving Biederman writes:
Gaze at something that leads to a novel interpretation... and that will spur higher levels of associative activity in opioid-dense areas. We are thus thrilled when new insights tap into what we have previously learned. We seek ways to feed our opioid desires; we are willing to endure the line at the movie theater in anticipation of the pleasure within. We pay more for a room with a view or a cup of coffee at a Parisian sidewalk cafe.
That explains the pleasure I find in scavenging other areas of knowledge for ideas that might be applied to criminal defense trial lawyering. (Don't tell anyone, or they'll start passing laws against it.)