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The “casual vs formal” sartorial metaphor explains everything 🤯 bloggers vs book writers improv storytellers vs deep method actors like Daniel Day-Lewis Mathew Dicks style yarn spinners vs program-lit novelists Gonzo lifestyles vs trads Markdown vs pdf Meetupers vs keynoters
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I can smell a premium mediocre or internet of beefs level meme and big thunk blog post here but I don’t know if I have the energy to extract it
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Basically anything in the formal dress-up column is behaviors by people who think they have something rare and precious that may never be found again and deserves careful preparation, performance, and costly signaling in a scarcity environment. They thrive on high stakes moments.
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Anything in casual column is behaviors by people who think they gave something commonplace and cheap that will keep turning up again and again so deserves no more than casual effort to apprehend and present, and only locally since it’s likely being discovered wherever relevant
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The anchor metaphor is sartorial because the most basic yardstick of value, scarcity, preciousness is yourself. Are *you* worth putting in a suit and tie? In an era where that’s a rare thing as opposed to an everyday thing.
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All your attitudes to value will be predictable based on whether or not you like to dress up in precious materials that require careful bearing and comportment. No eating messy tacos in nice silk clothes etc. Because your life is worth more gravitas.
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This also explains why the snack+beverage problem has not been solved. For the formalists, the fragility is a feature, keeping you on high alert in a high-stakes context. The casuals don’t care if they get stains on clothing, though they might regret losing a chip or French fry.
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Why has there never been a successful solution to problem of holding a beverage and snack in one hand while eating/drinking with the other? The saucer is a solution stub that doesn’t work except for perhaps a single small cookie. Something that doesn’t look like an HSN gizmo
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