1. Humans are obsessed with signalling their position in the status hierarchy. This desire is not rational. We do not turn it on or off. We pick fairly arbitrary ideas and objects to signal status. We can’t help but do it, and we do it without realising.
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5. In fact, the very act of writing this string of tweets is to signal to people who I think are high status that I read the same blogs, websites, and books as them and that they should consider me an equal or high status person.
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