
Reputation By Association: How Do The People You Interact With Reflect On You?
About this episode
Should I ditch Juan, is he giving me a bad reputation?
In Episode #248 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: responsibility for the type of people and groups you run in, whether we would care if a new acquaintance had a bad reputation, how much this topic plays out in our day to day life, the differences between your online keyboard warrior and IRL notoriety, why everybody absolutely loves us and wants us in all their cool groups (not!), times we have made the choice to push someone away or be wary of them and whether this it is ultimately useful/good to use reputation by association.
As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!
Timeline:
(0:00) - How accountable are you for your associates?
(4:17) - Friends with a funny murderer
(7:05) - Does reflected reputation affect your decision making?
(12:58) - Real life vs online reputation
(17:52) - Is rep stronger when tied to groups?
(19:55) - Do the Mere Mortals improve your rep? (yes we do!)
(23:42) - Conscious decisions we've made
(29:06) - Should we use this tool?
(33:51) - Become flawless, join us
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