Zed Shaw is an inspiration because he has the courage to be a man in a boyish, neoteny-driven industry. Something tells me that even when he's 50 or 60, he's no

Zed Shaw is an inspiration because he has the courage to be a man in a boyish, neoteny-driven industry. Something tells me that even when he's 50 or 60, he's not going to get cosmetic surgery like most major players in the VC-funded world. I don't know him, but he strikes me as an actual badass. I mean, I'm badass as hell by tech-employee standards, but that's only because most tech-employees are happy corporate serfs and I stand out in relative terms by actually having opinions. Relative to full-grown men I am fairly average on the badass spectrum: respectable, but not quite Mike Ehrmantraut. Zed comes off as (and probably is) an actual badass. And in a world where there are self-flagellating or clueless young engineers actually advocating for Scrum to be imposed on them, that's an inspiration that we desperately need.