Reputation
topic on 10 shows · 8 statements across 8 episodes · said 22 times in 5 episodes since 2017
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Clear: Cultivating Personal Reputation Directs Creative Energy the Wrong Way
“The lens should be mostly focused on the reader, not on yourself. I think if you think a lot about reputation and you're trying to like cultivate this image, that's the energy is focused in the wrong direction.”
Vaden: Personal branding is the digitization of an individual's reputation
“The way that we define it is that personal branding is simply the digitization of your reputation.”
Sutherland: High-reputation brands take fewer risks of disappointing customers
“Generally people who have a lot of reputational skin in the game, who've invested a lot in building up a reputation over time, are going to be much more cautious about disappointing their customers or risking negative feedback than someone nobody's ever heard …”
Hecht: VCs avoid honest feedback because they fear hurting their reputation
“I think a lot of investors are extremely tepid about doing both those things. Because reputation matters a great deal in this industry. In fact, reputation can ultimately be everything arguably matters most in this industry. And why would you want to do someth…”
Corcos: People Become More Afraid of Failure as Their Reputation Grows
“The more reputation you have, The more afraid you are of failure, which is ironic because it should be the opposite, but this is, this seems to be just a default state of human nature.”
Reputation is the most critical capital for executing inside large enterprises
“Inside of a large company perspective, like, your reputation is the most critical capital that exists to getting things done, and you gotta be willing to risk it.”
Ali Yahya: Blockchains Lack Effective Reputation and Identity Infrastructure
“The one that is still missing is that of social signals. There's still no real good mechanism for reputation or for identity on the blockchain, and that's one of the things that many people are working on, and that's a building block that will be needed going …”
Krugman: Reputation is a social technology that creates repeated games
“One way to think about that is reputation is a technology. It's, we solve a lot of problems in the economy by turning what could be one shot gains in which people literally take the money and run and turning them into repeated games in which people have an inc…”