Status Signaling

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

I find NFTs that evolve as you progress towards a goal more interesting because they tap on one's hard work & skill, vs one's wealth / being early at a drop. Similar to how in WoW expensive transmogs gave you clout, but the real clout was in hard achievements

Old world reputation: “How would you feel if your action was to be front page of the NYT tomorrow?” (Buffett’s newspaper test) New world reputation: “How would you feel if your action was to be revealed on-chain tomorrow?” (Because it will be eventually…)

A half-baked idea re: signatures and trust for Web3

The future of education is not homeschooling, bootcamps, or cohort-based courses It's proof-of-learning: - Learning on the job through micro-tasks (applied learning) - Resume auto builds as you prove learnings digitally - Earn ownership in networks as you learn

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.

Social proof is one of the most powerful features in social products and yet is massively under-utilized by almost all social platforms. Let’s explore some ways that Twitter successfully uses social proof and some ways they fall very short Thread👇🧵