Davos Couldn’t Write
I had a project manager on my team — I'll call him Davos — who was one of the best that ever worked for me. He could motivate a burned-out team and walk a hostile stakeholder back from the ledge. He could not write to save his life. Six months later, we were celebrating his promotion to Program Manager.
Three Influences on The Revenant Strain
Thirty+ years in corporate IT taught me that nobody builds anything from scratch — you look at what worked and steal the parts that fit. The Revenant Strain came out of an oral history, a monster movie, and a midlife-crisis comedy.
Only one of them has a zombie in it.