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Re:Why I wear the same shirt every day by batista on Friday September 07, 2012 @04:02PM (#4490914)
>It's not so much "saving 10 seconds" as it is "avoiding cognitive context switching".

Humanity FAIL. As if you have some very crucial things to decide on the 15 minutes you spend waking up, dressing, shaving and such...

What "context switch"? You are not an OS, and you are not even fully awake, heck you're not even awake before coffee, much less just after you woke up.

Re:Why I wear the same shirt every day by lotharbot on Friday September 07, 2012 @04:11PM (#4490955)
> "As if you have some very crucial things to decide on the 15 minutes you spend waking up, dressing, shaving and such..."

I'm a stay-at-home dad. I very often wake up thinking about how to approach my son's disability, and I'm glad that I don't have to deal with interruptions to my thought process for something as pointless as "which shirt should I wear today". I just pull the top shirt off the pile and keep thinking about my son.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some very important playing-with-blocks to do. Humanity WIN.

Re:Why I wear the same shirt every day by batista on Saturday September 08, 2012 @06:15AM (#4492704)
>I'm a stay-at-home dad. I very often wake up thinking about how to approach my son's disability, and I'm glad that I don't have to deal with interruptions to my thought process for something as pointless as "which shirt should I wear today".

Sorry, but "stay at home dads" don't get to be interrupted by clothing choices anyway. It's not like the public is gonna see what you are wearing. Why even wear a shirt? Pyjamas would be equally OK. So you're not the kind of person I wrote my comment for (the same way the advice of wearing the same shirt every day would be totally worthless for a fashion model).

That said, all health to you and your son, man.

Re:Why I wear the same shirt every day by lotharbot on Saturday September 08, 2012 @02:30PM (#4493578)
"stay at home dad" doesn't mean I'm in a cave all day. I go to the grocery store, the park, my yard, the neighbor's house, my son's therapist, and so on. I can't just walk around in boxers and slippers. I do have to dress at least somewhat sanely.

But even if I wasn't a stay-at-home dad, the same argument holds: some people are thinking about important things in the morning. Maybe you're not; maybe you walk around like a zombie until your second cup of coffee. But some people focus in the morning, and for those people, "automate unimportant decisions" is one strategy to let them stay focused on whatever important thing it is they're thinking about.

(I wasn't always a stay-at-home dad.)

Re:Why I wear the same shirt every day by batista on Sunday September 09, 2012 @06:43AM (#4495496)
>"stay at home dad" doesn't mean I'm in a cave all day. I go to the grocery store, the park, my yard, the neighbor's house, my son's therapist, and so on.

Still, not the typical subject of the original post.

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