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2 timestamped hits 1 source reading 1 extracted note Aliases: brand-name-recognitions, recognition, recognitions

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brand name recognition

The institutional payoff Harvard receives when a graduate becomes publicly famous or powerful.

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brand name recognition

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The institutional payoff Harvard receives when a graduate becomes publicly famous or powerful.

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The Meritocracy Eats Its Children

2025-09-12, day precision · Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy

Transcript

"...in the world, because they're looking to create as much brand name recognition for themselves as possible. Okay? All right. Does that make sense?..."

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The Meritocracy Eats Its Children

2025-09-12, day precision · glossary

Reading

The lecture turns meritocracy from a school virtue into a trauma machine: Harvard invents selection as power preservation, Yale trains insecurity as ambition, and the winners become actors who can promise goodness while serving...

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