Thanks for all the suggestions—it will take some time to research and integrate them!
The task is effectively endless, there’s a tradeoff curve between time and insight → agency increases. I think that (particularly if a well-curated list of reliable rules is available) the average person should spend a few hours studying these matters a couple of times a decade to increase their agency. That means the list could still usefully be a little longer. The task of constructing and curating the list in the first place is more time consuming, which means I should be expected to spend more time than is strictly useful on it.
In terms of clothing, I included some well-established status symbols that seem to have staying power and linked to further resources for people who are interested—but I don’t recommend obsessively following the fashion cycle.
You’re probably right about the side-note, though it seems hard to disentangle.
Thanks for all the suggestions—it will take some time to research and integrate them!
The task is effectively endless, there’s a tradeoff curve between time and insight → agency increases. I think that (particularly if a well-curated list of reliable rules is available) the average person should spend a few hours studying these matters a couple of times a decade to increase their agency. That means the list could still usefully be a little longer. The task of constructing and curating the list in the first place is more time consuming, which means I should be expected to spend more time than is strictly useful on it.
In terms of clothing, I included some well-established status symbols that seem to have staying power and linked to further resources for people who are interested—but I don’t recommend obsessively following the fashion cycle.
You’re probably right about the side-note, though it seems hard to disentangle.