It’s just his personality. He doesn’t care. He likes that outfit. He buys multiples. He doesn’t care what he eats either.
What he does care about, he gets into. We’re all like that in some ways: don’t care what you drive? Don’t care where you work or live? Don’t care about jewelry? Or your hair? Or what your yard looks like?
Most ppl have some aspect of life that is just a means to an end and they don’t care about it.
Wow his dog is super cute, but I wouldn’t want to take care of grooming it!!
Branding
As far as I can tell, a really huge concept for his generation.
Everything HRS said!
I simplify my life wherever possible so that I can devote my time to things I actually care about (which is not food or clothes). I have a pain in the tuchas rescue dog that complicates my life and I voluntarily choose to take on projects that I’m passionate about.
Not spending time or energy on things that are pointless to me allows me to spend more on the things I care about. I completely understand people like Zuckerberg and Jobs.
Yeah, I think he definitely cares. Like @alh said, he’s branding himself. I still remember how people talked about him wearing hoodies to meetings where everyone else was wearing a suit, and the suits were outraged. It’s a deliberate, calculated decision, like just about everything I’ve ever seen him do.
Except maybe that recent shot of him in the pool with his kid-I think he should have kept the gray t shirt on because I was blinded by that chest, lol.
The Pharma Bro killed the hoodie… Zuckerberg had to rebrand. 
I would buy his schtick about it simplifying his life if he didn’t seem to be bragging about it. This man is no Buddhist monk.
Ralph Nader did the same thing 7 black suits, same ties, white shirts. All socks exactly the same so you didn’t have to match them. Said he just wanted to focus mental energy on his projects.
It could be more of a symbolic thing for him to remind himself to not waste time on making decisions on trivial matters.
Much like I take a stone out of my small collection every morning to carry with me. It reminds me to stay grounded and focus on peacefulness, not to sweat the small stuff (They are from my favorite spot in the Adirondacks and I hold them during moments of stress or distraction to redirect my thoughts).
His closet full of gray shirts may be the same as my bowl of stones.
“I would buy his schtick about it simplifying his life if he didn’t seem to be bragging about it. This man is no Buddhist monk.”
I don’t remotely see what he is doing as “bragging.” It works for him – great! I also completely get why Obama wears the same color suits.
I think HRSMom is spot-on - we all have things that we care about and things we don’t. His thing that he doesn’t care about happens to be clothing.
I try to simplify and be minimalist in a lot of things. I wear the same watch, earrings, necklace, rings pretty much 90% of the time - they’re classic, understated and go with everything and the most that I change out is my right-hand ring or if I’m on vacation and don’t want to bring expensive stuff along. I wear the same makeup most days and I have a pre-packed extra set in my gym bag - if I travel, I just grab that cosmetics kit and off I go. I’ve worn my hair straight with bangs for 20 years without a lot of change – the biggest variety being pulling it up in a ponytail.
I recently found a pair of black pants I really liked and bought 3 pairs. I bought several identical pairs of running shoes so I have them on hand for when the first set wears out. I’m a Sam’s Club stocker-upper type of person so I don’t have to waste time buying toilet paper and the like when I can buy it in bulk. I think efficiency is good!
I try to routinize certain things - e.g., I fill up my car every Sunday regardless of how empty it is, that type of thing. I’m not a foodie so frankly I’m happy when I have a big casserole and I just reheat a plate every night for a week - I couldn’t care less that there’s no variety.
If Mark Zuckerberg is happy, great! For all I know, he spends a lot of time on other parts of his life. Maybe he cares a lot about his home decor, or what he eats, or whatever.
“Does he eat the same thing for every meal every day, too, so as not to have to make any of those pesky decisions that will impede his life work? The shirts are what my people call a shtick. I have a friend who claims to never have even tasted coffee. Whenever he reveals this to someone new, he becomes the focus of the room. Shtick.”
So what if he does eat the same thing for every meal? Personally, as a non-foodie, I don’t get why people have to act so precious about food that every single thing that goes into their mouth has to be a taste explosion or else it’s a crisis. It’s food. It satisfies hunger. Frankly a frozen dinner is good enough for me. I’d rather just eat and get on with my life. He’s the same way about clothing. OK, so be it.
Like collegequery, when I traveled to clients for several-day workshops, I had “go-to” combinations of outfits that I wore. It simplified things to have everything in one color palette – I often did a light blue / gray combo, so it would all mix and match. My business partner would pack more clothing than needed and then decide there, in the moment, that she wanted to wear the peach dress with the blue scarf instead of the beige pants with the pink scarf. Dragging around extra stuff like that “just in case” would drive me crazy.
Sounds like some people are not fans of Mark Zuckerman! A neutral tshirt and hoodie as a “uniform” of sorts for him - why does it need to be a “shtick”??? THAT’S judgmental to me!!!
I’m sure his tshirt and hoodie are clean and in good repair. Looks like he’s taking it off a hanger in a closet (like all of us!). There is MUCH more to MZ than what he is wearing. That is what I’ll remember, admire and value about him. The fact that he wears “this” daily is a piece of trivia - not who he is.
On the other hand, someone who is ONLY about their clothes and doesn’t have much other substance to them or about them? Then I suppose there is more “room” for evaluating and basing their “person” on what they are wearing.
Also, the post was made to announce his return to work after paternity leave - I believe that was the point of it. The fact that (perhaps) at that moment reaching into his closet to dress for work he found a moment of appreciation that (like many of us who remember EVERYTHING about that first day back to work) clothes picking didn’t have to be a source of stress!
As someone who stresses over decisions, I understand this completely and have considered it for myself. W donated all my poly-blend wardrobe when we got married and I really dislike all the ironing I have done over the years with my cotton dress shirts and pants.
He shared that photo of his closet. Sounds just a bit proud, no?
It was known as gentle self-deprecation. He’s known for the trait of wearing the same gray shirt and hoodie, so he made a light-hearted joke at his own expense about having to decide what to wear for his first day back after paternity leave. It was cute and charming and humanizing. For goodness sake. I swear, it’s OK to have a sense of humor sometimes.
There was a similar picture of Hillary Clinton’s closet some time ago where she playfully joked about what she was going to wear to some event - it wasn’t really her closet, but it was a line-up of pantsuits in red, white and blue. Again, gentle self-deprecation because she’s known for the brightly colored pantsuit look.
I don’t see the issue here. Being organized and efficient and routinizing things you don’t care about is smart, not silly.
He didn’t share a picture of him wearing the tshirt and hoodie and pointing out his massive arm muscles with one arm and doing a thumbs up with his other arm - THAT might be a “look at me!!!” gesture.
What is there to be necessarily “proud” of showing your world that your closet is generic??? FB is often about showing/sharing a piece of your world - and in a celebrity case especially - a piece of your personal world. Like a typical parent, he shared going back to work after paternity leave. Like a typical person, he showed that he has a closet with hangers (not a butler dressing him - haha). Like a typical person who likes to dress comfortably and without thought, he chose to perhaps share his quirk of having a daily “uniform”.
Most of the time I wear a uniform, of sorts. Jeans, khakis, leggings in cold weather. Equally neutral shorts or skorts in hot weather. Tee-shirt casual dresses. Navy blue, black, white turtlenecks, sweaters, tee-shirts, along with some items in other colors. Shoes that I could, if necessary, walk ten miles in. Basic gold and silver jewelry. Colorful scarves that go with almost anything. I can get dressed in no time, and everything matches.
Ask me to get dressed up for an “occasion” and there goes an hour of my life!
Does this bra and panties work? Do I even own a black razorback dressy bra? Do I need Spanks? Are these shoes too casual? Too dressy? The right color? is this dress appropriate for the occasion? Does this necklace go with the neckline of this dress?
Gah! Back before kids, when I had to get “dressed up” for work, every morning was sort of like that. Of course, I had no kids, and I enjoyed the process at the time, but I can see the ease of creating a work “uniform” to simplify your day.
I recently read an article about decision making, and fatigue. According to the article, people in general can only handle X many decisions a day before reaching a state of fatigue. It makes sense to limit the number of unnecessary or unenjoyable decisions every day, so that we are ready for the important ones.
I have my work uniform of black or navy pants, and nice tops or sweaters. To be more casual, I shift. To black or navy jeans. Most jewelry remains the same.
It is hard work to plan a complete outfit. My g/f loves being able to wear scrubs.
Grey T, black pants, and black cardigan. My employees are shocked if I don’t wear my standard “black and grey everyday”. They get jittery if I switch things up and get crazy with a pair of blue jeans. Like today. I’m sporting Levis and I’m outta control!