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I never met Koz or interacted with him in any significant way, so I don't really have an opinion about him. I've never met Zed. However, from the rant and fro
by qaexl 19y ago
I never met Koz or interacted with him in any significant way, so I don't really have an opinion about him.
I've never met Zed. However, from the rant and from reading the interview with Zed about Mongrel a couple years back, I think Zed is being true to himself. To me, that's more important than crossing socially sanctioned lines ... even if it is name-calling.
I also know that I'm in the minority here. I value self-honesty more than appearances of professionalism or maturity. Self-honesty is extremely difficult to accomplish, if you can accomplish it at all. I get the sense that Zed prizes this as well. Won't really know unless I've met him.
- jamesbritt 19y ago> I value self-honesty more than appearances of professionalism or maturity. Self-honesty is extremely difficult to accomplish, if you can accomplish it at all. Sure, but aren't these things orthogonal? Basic professionalism and maturity need not be excluded because of self-honesty.
- qaexl 19y agoThey don't necessarily need to be excluded. Sometimes they are. In the Mongrel interview, it seems to me Zed has always been an in-your-face kind of a guy. Like I said though, I won't really know unless I talk with him face to face. Words are OK, but words make it easy to obfuscate any truths about yourself. He threw a tantrum in this rant, no bones about it. But I'm not going to make a judgment on whether he was justified or not. Zed just is, this is the choice he made, these are his actions, and there will be ripples from his actions. So be it.