I would love to see different behaviors in tech get the Elephant In The Brain treatment. What would explain widespread acclaim for a convoluted talk? Perhaps praising a hard to understand idea is higher status than praising an easy to understand one.https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1129519029192757249 …
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What else might be high status? Having lots of side projects? Knowing esoteric languages? Using emacs/vim/ed/whatever? I'll even poke fun at myself a bit here: I love Haskell, but I often wonder what % of the motivation is signaling vs capital.
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my collection of pop culture references and memes are all the status i need
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further clarification: references that a large subset of people don’t get
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