Two generations, Z and X, together Gen ZX: back to the ZX Spectrum

Generation Z, entering the workforce and becoming the entrepreneurs, and Generation X, the subject-matter experts starting companies, often their parents; the millennials in the middle may read it but theirs is a different story. Together they are Generation ZX, which goes back to Dinis's origins, the ZX Spectrum (Sinclair, UK, April 1982). It is Gen ZX, not XZ: XZ is the compression library with the 2024 backdoor, and in a book that covers security the order of the letters matters.

Decided by. Dinis, in Gen ZX Developers, adopted as the frame of rc2 (decision 015)

Note. Generation boundaries by the Pew Research Center's dates (X 1965 to 1980, millennials 1981 to 1996, Z 1997 to 2012); the book says which it uses. Whether the book says why it is not for millennials first is Dinis's question; decision 014 says it does, briefly.

Where it comes from

Gen ZX Developers Generation X, too; Generation ZX; Precisely (article)
The expert founders 'Execution just got cheap' (newsroom)
Decision 014: The title is Generation ZX Developers (GenAI Startup Edition) Generation ZX in the title (decision)

What it answers in the 2018 book

Generation Z answered written, Introduction

Where it goes

Chapter Gen ZX: who this book is for, and what it is for, part Before you start (drafting); topic Everyone who can brief an agent is a developer now.

Other ideas proposed for the same chapter: The reader this book is for is the founder, and its objective is that by the end you have started a company.

Node idea:two-generations-gen-zx in graph.json; see it in the graph. Source: admin/content/graph/ideas.json.