Interestingly, the reason 'not chasing status' is a status signal itself is because it shows that you are confident enough not to worry too much about status, k

Interestingly, the reason 'not chasing status' is a status signal itself is because it shows that you are confident enough not to worry too much about status, kind of like stotting [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stotting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stotting