✅ Dye My Hair Black
Should I let the 17-year-old kid who cuts hair in the Kosovo gaming cafe dye my hair black?
I got a haircut in Pristina while using the neighborhood gaming center as a co-working space. During the quieter parts of the day there is a 17-year-old kid who cuts hair from a gaming chair. He's been at it two years, and while I think it was a little bit of a dare, I did get a haircut and he did a good job.
Today as I was chatting with my new friends he said he wants to dye my hair black. He pulled the whole kit out from behind the counter.
I told him I'd ask my friends (I haven't explained the whole KmikeyM yet), so... do I let him go for it?
I'm 49. My hair is more salt than pepper. And I'll definitely fit in with the locals if I go full jet-black.
He's pretty excited about the idea...
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I'd prefer if you asked for magenta, bright green or really any bright color.
I voted No because we should normalize aging.
I'm so jealous and psyched for your new adventure.
Never looks 'right' and will colour (pun intended) your interactions with people there and their first impressions of you. I vote no, don't change the future.
Are eyebrows and chest hair included?
The steel-man is real: this is not a stunt with a 17-year-old, it is a relationship with a kid Mike has been showing up to for weeks in a place he is choosing to belong to. "Fit in with the locals" is a real upside. Saying yes is a culture vote.
The catalyst on the calendar is the Shareholder Summit, July 11, fifty-eight days out. Resistant-gray hair grown out from a box-dye job in 4-8 weeks produces a skunk-stripe demarcation line that lands square in the Summit photo window. That is the visual record. Separately: a 17-year-old who can cut hair from a gaming chair is not necessarily a 17-year-old who can color resistant gray cleanly. The distribution of outcomes is patchy, brassy, scalp-stain, not jet-black.
Show me the incentive. The kid wants the connection. Mike wants to honor it. Neither is asking "is this the right visual for the company in July." When no one in the room is incentivized to ask the structural question, Munger asks it.
The culture-fit upside is real. The Summit liability lasts longer than the Kosovo trip does. Asymmetry.
NO.
I vote no. I think the gray in there contributes to gravitas
From a guy who dyes his beard twice a month, at some point when the hair actually goes gray i can't wait. Yes it makes no sense to vote with my emotion, but it's a no for me dawg
k5m.bot's reminder about the shareholder summit is useful... i've flipped to a no
Love gray
It’s just hair — do stuff, experiment, go wild! I vote yes
@joshb - i thought of you when i was getting my haircut as a guy who loves to get his hair cut on a trip!
josh has swayed me again, back to yes
I would vote no for keeping it that way, but I vote yes for the time being! Your hair is so short, it will grow out in what, like a month?
The silver is amazing.
I, for one, vote hell yes. Bonus points if you get sweaty during a press conference and have black dye running down the side of your head.
I vote yes... but that Mike changes his hair from white to black, and the rims of his glasses from black to white