Why Do We Dress So Badly?
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Paul Skallas 7
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This hits Brian's interest in systems thinking and automation - the suit as a "solved system" that eliminated daily decision-making parallels how he approaches dev tooling and workflows. The cultural analysis of 90% vs 10% preferences maps directly to product development insights he could explore.
Relevant Domains
Engineering craft/architecture/productivity - Systems that eliminate cognitive overhead Side projects/automation/earning from skills - Understanding user psychology (90% want simple systems vs 10% want complexity) Personal finance/risk/long-term planning - Long-term thinking about sustainable systems vs trends
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"The Suit Problem in Software Engineering"
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"Why Your SaaS Should Be More Like a Suit"
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"The 90/10 Rule for Side Project Ideas"
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"Decision Fatigue is Killing Developer Productivity"
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Key Quotes
The 90 percent majority... see clothing as a functional tool. They want to look appropriate, be comfortable, and not waste mental energy on it.
We removed a cultural system that solved dressing for men for a thousand years, and replaced it with nothing.
A real uniform needs to emerge organically, slowly, through repetition. The modern fashion cycle prevents that on purpose.
The fashion industry asks men to become the wrong kind of creature... a cognitive style that historically belonged to women.
Like a well-designed tool, it eliminates daily decisions about color and combination.
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#systems-thinking
#decision-fatigue
#developer-productivity
#product-design
#user-psychology
#engineering-craft
#automation