Premium mediocrity: The simulated search for excellence
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Isn’t there an entire industry devoted to convincing people their mediocrity is excellent?
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Nice nuance but I think I mean my version, you have to simulate the searching not the excellence
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Excellence is a signal.
Codify the signaling, forge a branding iron.
Brand all the things.
Very 90s. So end-of-history. Much nostalgia.
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does this cover institutions that claim excellence a priori and then let their acolytes bask in the process of "being excellent"
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