Therefore you should at least make an effort to dress up for an interview because you never know if it's your last chance to make any sort of impression.

And let your hubris shine that way instead of choosing the casual path that every other one will certainly choose.

Edit: of course this argument is lost on all the beautiful minds who spare no effort at shabby chic

Signalling that you're taking the path of least resistance aka snitching is hardly ingenious.

And you call yourself a software professional!

-> https://twitter.com/matthewwalther/status/128234456305575526...

Best clothing there ever has been for being a professional program writer, hands down.

Could not have said it any better

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How's your situation, are you still learning and pursuing your own journey? I can totally relate to the feeling of being out of work but I believe strongly that our work is a calling and we must listen to our intuition on the journey to mastery of our art.

And an utter disregard for traditional business mores

Every medium is a social one if you think about it and every social medium is political.

The medium has and always will be the message and when you get to the core you understand the message is simply the audience.

Do you think "primitive" civilizations compared to ours didn't have social media before the advent of the tweet?

They were operating on levels we haven't even begun to understand in our foolish pride.

We're as primitive as we were at the invention of electric light and our technological advancements have outpaced our morality. We're just amplifying the hysteria and confusion with our automated algorithms and always-on engagement and now every poor schmuck has a voice where once it was limited to the elites. You should be grateful that Twitter has democratized the inane blatherings of the proletariat to drown out the voices of so called authority.

And in fact one of the devs was poached by a shady bunch of foreign looking suits who would have fit right in with big brother.

In all fairness you have a split second between the light coming on and the video stream initializing to err hide your shame. What are you doing in front of your computer with no pants on? Naked yoga?

Who ever speaks about our duty to our fellow man and the giants whose shoulders we stand on?

I blame a lack of classical education on this performance based meritocracy that's become a runaway train with no ethical brakes.

That's where I've come as a professional. I couldn't give a fuck any more about anyone's problems and I've learned that it has everything to do with creating pathways for people to communicate.

People are difficult creatures and academia has made us into basket cases unable to tie our own shoelaces without help from someone who will evaluate us and dangle a carrot in front of us for the effort.

How about getting over yourself with your corporate lorem ipsum and use the technology at your disposal to fix this dumpster fire of a planet we've made for ourselves?

The standard signals are a shirt and tie, jacket and pocket square with other accessories.

Now we're on a different playing field with other less overt details and our vehicles have become our outerwear.

We've both got each other thinking a little. Fist bump to that!