A few weeks ago, my longstanding friend and colleague Curt Cunning mentioned to me that he was slogging through Nietzsche, which bespeaks his incredible will to power through things that are unpleasant (one of the many things that makes him an exceptional engineer). In any case, it lead me to revisit some of his work (Nietzsche’s, not Curt’s. Curt’s work is the opposite of a slog). My very stale memory of it from college was thinking, “Wow, this dude was on all the drugs.” Which he was, if only because he was perpetually suffering from chronic illness.