Am I weird for eating the same 3 things every damn day?

James Julian
3 min readFeb 13, 2023

I eat the way Steve Jobs dressed.

The Apple founder and certified genius was well-known for the lack of variety in his wardrobe.

Jobs would get up every day, put on a black turtleneck, and go to work.

Reportedly, there were two reasons for this:

  1. He liked the simplicity and efficiency of not having to think about and pick out something different to wear every day
  2. He once visited a Sony factory in Japan where the workers all wore the same uniform, which built loyalty to the company (this story is recounted in Walter Isaacson’s biography of Jobs — apparently he tried to bring a uniform policy to Apple which was roundly rejected by employees)

It kind of reminds me of how I eat.

Every morning, I get up and have the exact same thing for breakfast.

Then I work for a while.

Then I have the exact same thing for lunch.

Is that weird?

Digital painting of a man in black surrounded by blueberries and strawberries (Credit: James Gordon/Dall-E 2)

Breakfast

Like Jobs, I love simplicity and efficiency, and I feel like the diet that I’ve come up with gives me all the nutrients I need naturally in the first half of the day.

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