Thank you for this. You managed to put fairly specific words to something that I constantly struggle to define, which is the process by which one affects and i

Thank you for this. You managed to put fairly specific words to something that I constantly struggle to define, which is the process by which one affects and influences the culture they exist in. I think it's important to bring these things up and talk about them, especially with people who are not exposed to echo chambers like this one. Talking about these issues on HN is important, but only matters if you take the subject matter and expose it to folks in other contexts. You describe this process really well. I wonder, too, how we as tech-minded hackers and programmers and doers can use what we have and what we work with to strengthen these signals. Like, facebook and twitter et al have optimized for things like raw engagement numbers / advertising exposure etc. Are there things we could do to optimize for engagement / cultural development? I pose this question in earnest. It's something I have thought about a lot without many good answers to show for it.