strategy scrapbook
cultures, audiences, and meaning operate on layered time:
• Spiral time: What's old returns transformed not repetition, but reformation.
• Deep time: Strategy shaped by legacy, myth, generations. Moves beneath the quarterly surface.
• Rupture time: Crisis, collapse, revelation. Not gradual change but cultural fracture and reassembly.
zoe scaman • The Work
my roman empire is how & why people signal status:
1. Patricians
high wealth, low need for status
ex: Loro Piana
2. Parvenus
high wealth, high need
ex: Birkin lawsuit
3. Poseurs
low wealth, high need
ex: dupes, Stanleys
4. Proletarians
low wealth, low need
ex: Carhartt
1. Patricians
high wealth, low need for status
ex: Loro Piana
2. Parvenus
high wealth, high need
ex: Birkin lawsuit
3. Poseurs
low wealth, high need
ex: dupes, Stanleys
4. Proletarians
low wealth, low need
ex: Carhartt

