Why “Doctor in Denim”?
As many strange ideas do, this blog name came from a random conversation I had with my brother. He was writing/editing several articles for a magazine at the time, and I was working on writing a piece about how to raise rich kids who aren’t entitled jerks.
We were talking about writing under your real name versus a “fun” name versus totally anonymously. We decided I would never make it writing anonymously because I like honesty and candor and sharing pictures of my family and friends. And we arrived at Doctor in Denim because:
- It’s a little different and a little weird, which makes sense since the whole idea here is to get excited about thinking differently.
- I wear jeans a lot, including sometimes to the office. Jeans are the best.
- It suggests that I am smart (which I hope is somewhat true) and also lacking in sophistication (which is for sure true).
- It hints at one of the themes here, which is that making good money (which tends to happen when you are a doctor unless your really mess something up) doesn’t mean you have to spend all your money on fancypants stuff (pun intended).
- The corresponding banner photo idea was fun, despite the fact that my oldest child complained about it the whole time and my youngest would not hold still for even a second.
- If it makes you imagine a nerd in a denim jumper, that’s a dead ringer for me in the 80s, so it works on several levels.
- The word “denim” comes from the French phrase “serge de Nîmes” which means “fabric from Nîmes” (which is a city in the Occitanie region of southern France). So… that’s awesome, obviously.
- The domain name wasn’t taken.
And that’s it. Honestly I didn’t think about it very hard.
