reputation

• Notes from the reputation/friendship salon

• R:friendship, R:salons

• Eugene Wei piece - https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service

  • Status As A Service
  • Outlines what factors affect the proliferation of a social network

  = Building social capital

  • Come for the tool, stay for the network
  • Proof Of Work
  • Juggling multiple identities

• https://medium.com/indian-thoughts/the-ring-of-gyges-is-justice-always-self-interested-f67b4689f742
  • People praise justice not because they believe in it, but to keep up the pretense
  • People practice justice because of the reputation it offers, and the benefits that come with it
  • Adeimantus’ argument: “If I am just, it will bring me no advantage but only trouble and loss, whereas if I am unjust, but can contrive to get a reputation from justice, I shall have a marvellous time.”

• “Reputation is what people tell about you behind your back”

• Think about your IRL brand

  • Is there a difference between personal brand and a reputation?

Lukas Rosenstock - Germany - software developer

• After 10 years, what will be the next local-gossip-model

• Post Secret - https://postsecret.com/

• “Queen Bees and Wannabes”

• Tall poppy syndrome is a major factor while developing a reputation

  • Especially an outward one as it relates to your successes

• Reinvention of your identity? Brand?

• Being inconspicuous, having to build a brand

• “Why did you leave the hunter gatherer society? Look, now you have a backache!”

• When you’re younger, people assume they have the freedom to share their observations about you

  • Often tends to be untrue, and especially unwelcome
  • For women this often is presented under the guide of being “in their interest”, which also robs them of the ability to disagree

• People who don’t participate in gossip remind the gosspiers that it’s all trivial - and they often don’t like to be reminded that

• Security (of reputation) by obfuscation

  • Walter Issacsson - uses subtexts in writing Jobs’ biography

-Havelian

• Power of the powerless

• Reputation becomes a necessity when people are forced to operate with each other without a well-formed relationship

• Concerns about privacy is actually concern about guarding your reputation

• Myra Strober’s book Interdisciplinary Conversations

• Reputation as a tribal thing

• People acquire a composition of values over their life

  • And by the time you’re in your 30s, you’ve a unique combination that can pose you to feel lonely with an inability to align with other people
  • The lack of a tribe, so to speak

• In historic forms of human settlements, people had hundreds of years to get used to social order and develop the skills to handle your social reputation

• This somehow doesn’t exist today with rapid change in organization