Did you know that those who rock beards in traditional media and the blogosphere write better than their shaved colleagues? It is true. Why? Simple put: beards are awesome and they impact every part of a person's life in a positive fashion. Beards - by nature - push expressionism, they give those experiencing writer's block something to touch that helps them breakthrough to their next genius point, and beards can be used as a distraction - to get the hard hitting questions answered as the interviewee becomes memorized by the facial fuzz of the reporter.
I stumbled upon this post by ZDNet (written in March 2010) and was completely impressed by how many people on their staff #proveit --
- David Morgenstern - Resident Mac expert
- Dana Blankenhorn - Open Source and Healthcare
- Christopher Dawson - Education IT (and now part-time Google blogger)
- Dennis Howlett - Enterprise software
- Andrew Mager - Web expert
- Andrew Nusca - Associated Editor
- Zack Whittaker- iGeneration
- David Greenfield - Team collaboration blogger
- Joel Evans - Mobile Gadgeteer
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes - PC Hardware expert
- David Chernicoff - Next Generation Datacenter blogger
What other work places encourage the beard or goatee to such an astounding degree? No outlet can compete with such facial hair fury, which makes ZDNet Build-a-Beard's #1 choice for hairy tech gurus.
Dana Blankenhorn proving it wisely: 
