Status Signaling

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

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.

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Social-Recognition versus Financial Incentives? Exploring the Effects of Creativity-Contingent External Rewards on Creative Performance

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Issue #24: DAOs, Reputation and the Future of Work

Andrew Beal 30000feet.substack.com

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Don’t Rely on Credibility Stamps

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Cargo Cult Startups

Luke Burgis read.lukeburgis.com

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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World

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Juan Orbea

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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Culture is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism (2)

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Sam Liebeskind

Signaling as a Service

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SSarah Drinkwater

Just proved the thesis of this piece - on the endless selfish human desire to signal - in adding this to my sublime nail painting emoji