Earlier this week I spoke with the writer Nadia Asparahouva, author of the great book Working in Public. In our conversation, Nadia mentioned the classic piece “Status as a service” by Eugene Wei that details how Twitter functions (or functioned) as a giant status-seeking engine. This piece, Nadia proposed, crystalized the era of the internet when people were optimizing for likes and cultural cache in a game that felt novel and exciting. Something essentially all ambitious people felt compelled to do.
The Dark Forest and the Post-Individual
The Dark Forest and the Post-Individual
The Dark Forest and the Post-Individual
Earlier this week I spoke with the writer Nadia Asparahouva, author of the great book Working in Public. In our conversation, Nadia mentioned the classic piece “Status as a service” by Eugene Wei that details how Twitter functions (or functioned) as a giant status-seeking engine. This piece, Nadia proposed, crystalized the era of the internet when people were optimizing for likes and cultural cache in a game that felt novel and exciting. Something essentially all ambitious people felt compelled to do.