watch this pattern. -> attach to a hot frontier market w no background in it academically or prior intellectual interest -> create a public-facing identity around it -> borrow some of the category’s cultural capital (proximity farming) -> proximity farm to signal insider status (clout farming) -> then use that to enter the next set of rooms (social climbing) we're all human beings and utility-maximizers, and from time to time, execute similar strategies. however, there is a spiritual phenotype (e.g. someone who puts Forbes U30 in their profile or secretly desires to get that kind of signal) that purely operates on this as a Modus Operandi. If you're clever enough, you're probably never going to caught, but, usually, I haven't seen a lot of people wealthmaxx and powermaxx by engaging in lanyard-maxxing and network-maxxing In fact, I believe that has a tendency to move you out the kind of limbus that may let you craft a world or regional or world-historical moment (which is what generational founders should aim for in any ). The warning about this type of archetype can be distilled from initial pattern at the start of the tweet. Easy to spot tho