Short monologue (by entrepreneur Nate Tilley) explaining why he wears an all-black outfit: to reduce decision fatigue and conserve mental bandwidth for more important business choices. He describes his daily uniform (black T-shirt and black jeans) and frames clothing and food choices as avoidable drains on limited "mental RAM."
So a lot of you guys have been asking me all the time, like, why do you always just wear black? You know, I got thousands of different decisions to make on any given week. There's so many decisions as an entrepreneur that just come up every single day, and you get decision fatigue. So the last thing that I want to be doing is thinking about what color T shirt am I going to be wearing. That is just an absolute waste of mental ram. Everybody has only so much mental capacity in ram, and you don't want to use it on mindless things like, what am I going to be eating? What am I going to be wearing? You want to automate as much of that as possible. So for me, I don't need it. Think about what am I going to be wearing today? Like, I'm going to be wearing a black T shirt, and I'm going to be wearing black jeans. That's pretty much my uniform that I wear every day, and it just saves me from having to make those silly decisions.
