Status Signaling
understanding the subtle and interesting ways in which humans signal their status and reputation
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Status Signaling
Openness is a major driver of Evaporative Cooling. If anyone can join your community, then the people most likely to join are those who are below the average quality of your community because they have the most to gain.
The Evaporative Cooling Effect in Social Network : Networks Course blog for INFO 2040/CS 2850/Econ 2040/SOC 2090
Jia Tolentino on the Internet’s Endless Stage | Crooked Media
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While I was thinking through the cringe matrix, I thought a lot about celebrities. Given one of their main purposes as public figures is to both establish and violate social norms, thus providing us with both guidance and gossip, they’re always operating with a high cringe risk.
Role of celebrities is to establish & push norms, to be the focus of public debate & discussion. In social media world, everyone kinda is this.
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You can unbundle the education and the network, but the hardest part about universities to unbundle is the prestige
You know who also has prestige? Tesla. Apple. Google.
A startup should create a "university in a box" and sell it to companies w/ prestige looking to train & hire
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