Status Signaling

understanding the subtle and interesting ways in which humans signal their status and reputation

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Signaling: The Language Peacocks, Gazelles, and Humans All Speak

Farnam Street fs.blog

Danielle Vermeer

Bored Ape Yacht Club: Web3 Breakdowns Research

joincolossus.com

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A New Genre of Work

Station station.mirror.xyz

Twitter Blue feels like a missed revenue opportunity. People don't pay for features. They pay for social capital and status signaling. Twitter could 10x the monetization potential of this by adding things like paid verifications, badges and profile page cosmetics.

description twitter.com

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Reputation Markets

Erik Torenberg eriktorenberg.substack.com

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Costly signals of skill

Joey DeBruin flyingpenguins.io

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The spectacle is a social relation between people that is mediated by an accumulation of images that serve to alienate us from a genuinely lived life. The image is thus an historical mutation of the form of commodity fetishism.

The Society of the Spectacle Quotes by Guy Debord

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‎Thoughts in Between: exploring how technology collides with politics, culture and society on Apple Podcasts

Daniel Gross podcasts.apple.com

Sarah Drinkwater