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The Gervais Principle by the Ribbonfarm guy gets into this: powertalk vs. babytalk https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-ac
by red-iron-pine 8mo ago
The Gervais Principle by the Ribbonfarm guy gets into this: powertalk vs. babytalk
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/ https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
the Cornell article is basically just empirical testing of these concepts.
- ignoramous 8mo agoAlso summarised in https://alexdanco.com/2021/01/22/the-michael-scott-theory-of-social-class/ https://alexdanco.com/2021/01/22/the-michael-scott-theory-of...
- red-iron-pine 8mo agothis reads like an AI clickbait. it does make Rao's original article a little easier to digest but it was already pretty tight through the first 3-4 parts.
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- sigwinch 8mo ago> mortified to show off a $10,000 watch, but excitedly tell you about their $100,000 kitchen remodel filled with 100-mile diet cookbooks and single-origin Japanese knives, or their 6-month work sabbatical they spent powerlifting. This is a group of people where a Subaru is a higher-status car than a Cadillac, but the highest status car is none. Very Boulder, CO
- dboon 8mo agoAh god damn it, I'm Michael Scott...
- sigwinch 8mo agoIf you like ribbonfarm, the comment section in his follow up is worth reading: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/12/13/random-promotions-and-the-gervais-principle/ https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/12/13/random-promotions-and-... I wouldn’t be surprised if research like Cornell’s was inspired there.