The first time I wrote about the "path of reputation" I did my best to hide, in plain sight, what I was doing. I used all kinds of post modern jargon, like "value constructs", cultural analysis and deconstruct of …. The point being that, I needed to show-off my "Yale" cleverness. I have since come to believe that cleverness is overstated and a wasted of effort.
Now I say - I believe that how we act - is mostly determine by unexamined artifacts of culture that we adopt - are foisted onto us as children or worse - we assume them as "given". The point is that to understand and create a reputation you have to take seriously the integration of those artifacts and their effects on what you say and do.
My task as the reputationist is to point out some of those choices and the effects they can have on the authenticity that could be claimed.
Now I say - I believe that how we act - is mostly determine by unexamined artifacts of culture that we adopt - are foisted onto us as children or worse - we assume them as "given". The point is that to understand and create a reputation you have to take seriously the integration of those artifacts and their effects on what you say and do.
My task as the reputationist is to point out some of those choices and the effects they can have on the authenticity that could be claimed.
