In a very low research day, Megan Bedell (Flatiron) and I discussed proposals for inter-disciplinary and inter-group spectroscopic surveys of very bright stars. These would give general information about abundances, binarity, activity, variability, and suitability for further study (by, say, extreme precision radial-velocity projects). She has been thinking about target selection, and we discussed ways to make it very very simple. My position (as my loyal reader knows) is that it is better to be simple and somewhat inefficient than it is to be complex and very efficient. For legacy value, anyway, which is the whole point of a survey like this.
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