I have some "heroes of computer science" in my mind. Among them are Ada Lovelace, Donald Knuth, Paul Erdos, Ronald Graham, John Conway, Grace Hopper, John Carmack, and Tarn Adams. I want you to know that you are one of those heroes to me. I am sad that this list didn't include John von Neumann, who...

Sounds a bit like a burn-down list from Agile/Scrum, organized for big-picture understanding. Whatever works! The really exciting day will come when you realize that you have started taking down post-it notes faster than you are adding new ones.... I concur and assuming that Josh needs more tech ;)...