Re: LinkedIn Is a Horrible Place
A response to: LinkedIn Is a Horrible Place
I totally feel on this.
It’s funny, I’ve been spending time lately scraping old tech blogs from the early web to compile them into ebooks. Reading them is a breath of fresh air; there’s a real informational density there. A genuine desire to share concepts and raw reflections.
Contrast that with LinkedIn, where the goal isn't to inform, but to maximize "touchpoints."
We’ve reached a point where the signal-to-noise ratio is non-existent. The platform glorifies the superficial. Every self-proclaimed "LinkedIn Coach" hammers the same mantra: Your personality is your moat.
Like the author said, people take lukewarm industry takes and wrap them in artificial, often "weird" links to their personal lives. They think that because an insignificant anecdote happened to them, it magically transforms a banal piece of advice into "unique, high-value content."
If everything is "unique" simply because of the person telling it, then nothing is actually interesting.
Alas, in my case as well, I know I’m going to have to head back there this year to reactivate a 10-year-old account. To be honest, I’m still not sure how to navigate the tension between the "effectiveness" of those weird engagement hacks and staying truly, naturally myself.