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Why I wear the same shirt every day

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Re: Why I wear the same shirt every day

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Post by debacle »

lotharbot wrote: post #11
kristofferR wrote: post #6

I'd like to see a life so absurdly optimized for productivity that the maximum 10 seconds you save every morning by not having to decide what to wear is worth even mentioning. The next post will probably be about opening doors more effectively, like Kramer, to save a couple of seconds off the time spent opening doors each day.

It's not so much "saving 10 seconds" as it is "avoiding cognitive context switching". If you happen to be thinking about something important, you don't want to interrupt that thought process to look through your clothes and decide what to wear, or what to have for breakfast, or which car to drive, or any number of other trivial decisions. If you can replace those with automatic non-decisions ("take the top shirt out…

If you have to put important thought on the back burner while you zipper your pants, you have more issues that cognitive context switching.

Re: Why I wear the same shirt every day

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Post by unreal37 »

I have a closet shelf full of jeans. I also have hangers full of short-sleeve button-up work shirts. I don't do much thinking about getting dressed - I grab a jean and grab a shirt, based on what color I feel like today.

To each their own I guess. I don't begrudge you for wearing your own company's shirt every day. But let's be honest - it's 100% advertising, and 0% optimization.

Re: Why I wear the same shirt every day

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Post by onetimeuse001 »

"The first reason I stole from Steve Jobs. "...The second reason was inspired by Larry and Sergey.

Go to a freaking store and buy a bunch of t-shirts, you can get them for as little as $5 each, if money is an issue. Copying Jobs or the Google founders doesn't make you one of them, just makes you an ....

Re: Why I wear the same shirt every day

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Post by suyash »

freshhawk wrote: post #10

You aren't Steve Jobs. I would give the opposite advice. The easiest thing you can do to make people like you more, trust you more and respect your opinion more is to dress well and appropriately. Job's outfit and Zuckerberg's hoodies work the same way (whether that was the intention or not, I think not). The same part of human brains that stupidly subconsciously judges people by the way they are dressed is doing the…

You aren't Steve Jobs.

- So what, who says he can't emulate Steve Jobs?

Re: Why I wear the same shirt every day

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Post by fistofjohnwayne »

"Q: What do you call a man who dresses well? A: Grown-up."

As for the advertising, I think a well-dressed young(ish? -- the assumption being younger, single people are more likely to use Grouper) person engaging with potential customers in casual conversation at the popular coffee shops and lunch hangouts in your area would go a good deal further than schlepping to work in the same shirt each day. However, I haven't lived in New York and perhaps the people there are less open to casual conversation.

Re: Why I wear the same shirt every day

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Post by qq66 »

kristofferR wrote: post #6

I'd like to see a life so absurdly optimized for productivity that the maximum 10 seconds you save every morning by not having to decide what to wear is worth even mentioning. The next post will probably be about opening doors more effectively, like Kramer, to save a couple of seconds off the time spent opening doors each day.

You also don't need to wear the same thing every day to avoid thinking about what to wear. I never think about what to wear, just put on clothes randomly from the drawers. Sometimes my girlfriend has to tell me to go change, like when I wore a green sweater and green pants.

Re: Why I wear the same shirt every day

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Post by ImprovedSilence »

carlosaguayo wrote: post #23

Without any offense, how/why can a post like this make it to the #2 spot in hacker news? I'd like the top #5 or top #3 entries in hacker news be for truly relevant, worth either reading and studying news or entries no?

Slow news day, nothin else seemed to be of much mention....
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