# Scenes are people producing work aimed at impressing and one-upping each other A direct result of this is that [[Scenes form around a shared sense of what is celebration-worthy]]. The only way that One-upmanship has a nuanced relationship to competition. It is certainly a form of competition — there’s an inextricable sense of comparison in oneupmanship and I would argue even the ### Related * The bloomsbury group * [Visakan Veerasamy on Twitter: “I don’t usually think of John Maynard Keynes and Virginia Woolf at the same time, but they were basically twitter mutuals. Shame you can’t just search from:keynes woolf to see what their correspondences were like https://t.co/EPqSjShQcS… https://t.co/n7jxscUmWu”](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1250414684215234563) * [[By definition outlier analysis can’t rely on data as comparison to other organizations]] * [[What made Florence a Florence?]] * [[A players hire A players and B players hire C players]] * [[Why will people become PARPA PMs?]] * [[A scene is world-class if people who want to do new ambitious things in a discipline try to join it from around the world]] * [[A minimum viable scene can be created by two people]] * [[Scenes push the edge of human capability]] * [[Scenes form around a shared sense of what is celebration-worthy]] <!-- #stub --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Scenes+are+people+producing+work+aimed+at+impressing+and+one-upping+each+other) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Scenes+are+people+producing+work+aimed+at+impressing+and+one-upping+each+other)