[https://otherlife.co/the-meaning-of-clubhouse-vs-taylor-lorenz/](https://otherlife.co/the-meaning-of-clubhouse-vs-taylor-lorenz/)
I have some tensions with this piece and some of the background assumptions underlying it, but the take on the “why” of Clubhouse may be germane to current discussions around tech, truth, sense making, and platforms.
“This conflict is more interesting than it appears. First, the design of the Clubhouse app is surprisingly profound because it allows high-status individuals whose status is based on superior belief-calibration (successful founders and investors, by definition) to calibrate their beliefs privately, and also, paradoxically, to an audience.
On the other hand, for high-status individuals whose status is based on prestige institutions, their only raison d'être is the historical inability of other high-status people to calibrate and distribute their beliefs independently. Prestige opinion writers once solved a coordination problem for high-society; though not everyone would agree with any given prestige opinion writer, they provided a focal point and the basic premises which all high-society players could assume that all other high-society would respect.”