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As someone who wears tshirt and jeans every day, I'm not exactly qualified to comment on others' fashion choices. But if I wanted people to take me seriously, that wouldn't be my first choice of outfit.

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Any job that requires me to even interview in anything other than jeans and a tshirt or polo isn’t somewhere I want to work. If someone doesn’t take me seriously it’s their loss. Life’s too short to be uncomfortable.

e: Keeping below comment for posterity, but given that this is his official twitter profile photo I'm going to retract it.

> But if I wanted people to take me seriously, that wouldn't be my first choice of outfit.

You would wear the most serious outfits at all time so no publication can ever take a picture of you to make fun of you?

Sounds exhausting.

But let's be clear - it's not like he picked out this photo to be used by this author, this was their choice to make fun of him.

He appeared on the author's podcast. The author seems generally supportive of him.

I'm sure there are plenty of unflattering photos a journo could use against me, but in none of them would I be dressed and posed to look like a subnautical mortician.

I've also now seen that he is actually using this photo as his twitter profile photo.

It's his LinkedIn photo

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