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https://x.com/netcapgirl/status/2024140332963705342?s=46 https://x.com/netcapgirl/status/2024140332963705342?s=46 evergreen.
by ibero 6mo ago
https://x.com/netcapgirl/status/2024140332963705342?s=46 https://x.com/netcapgirl/status/2024140332963705342?s=46
evergreen.
- Hasslequest 6mo ago[dead]
- nwsm 6mo agousually when you call something "evergreen" it's not 2 months old
- Hasslequest 6mo ago[dead]
- abkolan 6mo agoI think it's just an internet trope at this moment.
- abkolan 6mo agoWhat's evergreen about it?
- all2 6mo agoIt's an Americanism that means 'it's always green' or 'always relevant'.
- eru 6mo agoIs the joke that the guy is drinking bad coffee?
- TheGRS 6mo agoThe joke is that all of the engineers that came before AI were also just following established patterns, right down to everyone wearing the same outfit to work despite our tech workplaces usually being very business casual. Implication that taste was not something these engineers had either.
- lamasery 6mo agoThe joke is that the person "saying" this is wearing their "I'm a rational, independent thinker!" tech uniform (expensive Nordic outdoors wear, so practical, so smart, so active, Vimes' boot theory, et c, not like those clowns in business wear, I'm interested in practicality not signaling, that's why I'm spending so much money signaling so hard about how rational I am). They are visibly displaying a complete lack of personal taste, instead wearing the SV equivalent of an outdated-cut, off-the-rack navy blue (or even black, LOL) business suit. The joke is that the message "good taste is what matters now" is being delivered by someone apparently, in a specifically SV sort of way, with a deficit of good taste.
- adammarples 6mo agoAgree but arcteryx is from vancouver
- lamasery 6mo agoGah, you're right of course. I was thinking of Fjällräven in particular (not that that's the only one) and got it mixed up.
- doctorpangloss 6mo agoThe original article was written by an LLM.
- morkalork 6mo agoOf course, it's John VP of Product. Did he tell you about that triathlon he did last weekend? Don't worry, if he hasn't already, he will.
- eru 6mo agoThanks for explaining. We don't get much of this 'uniform' here in Singapore. It's too hot for tech people to wear long trousers and long sleeves. I guess it makes sense of a joke. Though I don't think sense in fashion correlates much with sense in technology: the guy might just be wearing what everyone else is wearing, so that his wife doesn't bug him about it and he can concentrate on the hills he's actually prepared to die on?
- boshalfoshal 6mo agoThe joke is that "taste" usually implies you have some strong personal sense of self and style, but if you walked into tech offices in the bay area everyone looks like that and acts/talks the same. So its ironic that these same people are talking about "taste" when they ostensibly have very little.
- switchbak 6mo agoThat seems a bit judgy though, no? As if you can tell about a person's internal sense of taste by their business-casual clothing choices? I mean, some of those people undoubtedly like Rush ... make of that what you will.
- wincy 6mo agoSounds like I’d better run out and buy an Arcteryx vest.
- IncreasePosts 6mo agoThis seems more telling on the artist who, I guess, believes that if you have taste in any field, it will manifest itself as wearing stylish clothes. I see their most recent blog post is analyzing luxury brands, so I think I'm on point here.
- eru 6mo agoI don't mind when people want to spend a lot of money on clothing. But I mind when they judge other people for caring less. (And as a pet peeve, I don't really understand why people can spend so much money on off-the-rack clothing and outfits? If you want to spend a lot of money, perhaps go to a tailor? But hey, it's their money, not mine.)
- mememememememo 6mo agoI was expecting a circa 1993 rambling essay, pal.