Only tangentially related story, but maybe worth sharing. There’s an older gentleman who frequents a Panera in Chicago my wife works at. He is known and loved

Only tangentially related story, but maybe worth sharing. There’s an older gentleman who frequents a Panera in Chicago my wife works at. He is known and loved by all the employees and is staple of the store around closing time. At some point, I made a comment about the paper he was reading (he always brings in the daily paper) and we sat for a bit and talked politics and news. He had introduced himself as Bill, and over the course of the conversation I came to found out that he was William Howard. I’ve sat down and chatted with him a few times since, and he’s always happy to help explain type theory to my feeble web dev mind :). I was really impressed by how well versed he was, not only in his field of math, but also in his expertise of (what he considers a tangential field) programming, aerospace, ecenomics, etc. He’s got an air of humble greatness about him, and meeting him really left me a better and more educated person.