[malbiniak]

I don't think DHH has had a need to hustle in a while.

Exactly. Guys in his situation don't need to, but they still choose to. When you're playing with that sort of passion and intensity, you defend with vigor. That's embarrassing?

It's not like he drove over to cluebit's office and started smashing shit. He called him/them out. That's it, that's all.

[ahoyhere]

Strong language and strong feelings over work is considered very unprofessional and therefore an "embarrassment" to workaday types with starched blue oxford shirts and khaki pants. It's their worldview, which is fine. Except the starched shirts are always going around telling the rest of us (with green hair, funny company names, or a love of limber, lashing, fierce words) that we are wrong and unacceptable when we're just going about our business the way we (and our customers) like.

The starched shirts feel a need to make everyone conform to their view.

So sadly, it's never "that's all" when it comes to them. We shall fight them on the shores, etc. etc.