Every once in awhile, someone asks me why I have pink hair. (You ever notice that no one asks why anyone has blonde hair, or red hair? But pink, it seems, requires a good reason.) There are a lot of ways I could answer that question, but the simplest is probably that I don't really buy into the standard set of rules about what "success" or "professionalism" look like. As it turns out, there are a lot of things I don't buy into.