at HUN several folks had fun t-shirts which I quite enjoyed seeing and was glad that they wore I, OTOH, only ever wear one shirt: Carhartt model K87 black T I used to wear "fun" shirts when younger; not sure what changed. hypothesis 1: fun -> serious 2: my history is my brandhttps://twitter.com/drethelin/status/1188448757676990464 …
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6/ and it strikes me that signalling via clothing dovetails into this.
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7/ Concur! But in a historic environment (or even current one) younger you are, higher the percent of people you meet who are strangers. So it makes sense that young spend more effort displaying their brand. Oldsters inherit their own prev investmenthttps://twitter.com/drethelin/status/1188453693538131968 …
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8/ tired: the idle old / rich are living off the interest from their stocks and bonds wired: the idle old / rich are living off the interest from their reputational investments 40 years earlier
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10/ Hanson totally missed an opportunity to harvest some of the reputational gains from inherited memetic wealth right there.
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11/ "If I signal further it is because I stand on the reputational investments of giants"
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12/ This also dovetails with an observation
@sonyasupposedly made a few days ago about "how to build a rep on twitter". It was a good thread she pointed to, if taken DESCRIPTIVELY, but if taken as a recipe it seems sociopathic. https://twitter.com/Wu1fAxe/status/1188455567960035328 …This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread
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Its an old observation, not original to any of us.
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