Status Updates From String Theory: David Foster...

“…but the radical compression of his attention and self has allowed him to become a transcendent practitioner of an art. Something few of us get to be. It’s allowed him to visit and test parts of his psyche that most of us do not even know for sure we have, to manifest in concrete form virtues like courage, persistence in the face of pain or exhaustion, performance under wilting scrutiny and pressure.”

I appreciate that Wallace was able to get multiple publications to pay him to, in part, write about how much he hates Andre Agassi.