edit: dying institutions (like media cos) giving awards is genius. they give rising stars legitimacy (because general audiences buy into it) but in exchange those stars *owe* the media brand in a way that they will defend it's legitimacy, because it is now a part of their own. https://t.co/QnfzzklAUp
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should add saying this as a recipient, not the vent of some bitter person. the forbes award was validation of my network, not my execution. constantly surprised how many people in tech care about awards, acts as a negative signal imo because shows motivated by the wrong thing.
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just thought about this more and i think i updated on it. probably more likely that the majority of award-recipients knows it's BS, but they also know that the outside majority don't know what they know, so it's worth parading for the clout, even if it makes you feel icky.
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Awards are a local currency, adjudicating social status within an institutional game. They cannot be fungible outside, because that would corrupt the game. Thus, to the degree that you think outside of the game and understand game design, you will notice that is in-game money.
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