Re:Dress codes: Suitable disruption
by ModernMech on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @01:14PM
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But when Thiel says "I will not do business with people who dress in a suit, no matter what their idea is" the response from entrepreneurs will be always dressing in hoodies. Now that Thiel said this, in fact the non-conformists are the ones dressing in suits. Otherwise, they're just conforming to Thiel's preferred aesthetic in order to pass his bogus filter.
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Re:Dress codes: Suitable disruption
by danielweber on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @07:01PM
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It's like reading all of (say) pg's essays to see what he says he likes, and then adapting to it. 'pg, to his credit, has bemoaned that everything he says seems to get parsed to hell by people who want him to invest.
Occasionally after I didn't get a job offer I would later stumble across a blog post by someone at the company that says "candidates must obviously do X" and I didn't do X. I could have fixed this by reading everything written by every principal at the company ever before an interview. Maybe that's how they find people who are "really interested."
Re:Dress codes: Suitable disruption
by humanrebar on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @03:57PM
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I'm pretty sure that by the time hoodies are as traditional as suits are now, Thiel will be dead. Or at least he'll have a new heuristic (if he doesn't already).
Conforming to preferred aesthetics to pass bogus filters is an integral part of our lives. Otherwise, we wouldn't have and use euphemisms.