Favorite John Siracusa blog post from Hypercritical

 http://hypercritical.co/2014/01/14/the-road-to-geekdom

Middlemarch quote

 “The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”