A refreshing read in an age of 'personal brands' and the like. I thoroughly hope there are others cut from the same cloth, doing the same kind of quiet good work today - not for pageviews or followers, but because it's the right thing to do.
Like a dark planetary body that invisibly perturbs the motion of an incandescent star, I suspect it's only by their influence on others who have fame that such people may be found, like the casual dedication on a park bench that turns out to be... unusual.
Quiet good work I cannot speak to, but two that inspire me are the former Guns n Roses rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin and Mark Knopfler. Stradlin quit drugs, quit the band even when the band was at its peak, and basically makes music for himself now. You'll be hard pressed to find interviews of him on YouTube because he'd rather be riding his motorcycle. Knopfler has been doing gods work by weaving intricate storytelling into gentle rhythms for decades now.
Taking into consideration that you are a person who posts quora articles on "what it is like to understand advanced mathematics" and "Kaspersky: Controversies", I think arrogance is the answer to your question, Mr math PhD :D
If someone living in New York feels tempted to visit the memorial bench mentioned, why not take a moment to snap a picture and add it to the Charles Bunstein Stover Wikipedia article?
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 33.2 ms ] thread> The first thing I discovered was that almost nobody — not my parents, not my high-school teachers — knew who Stover was.
I would be surprised if they did know.