LinkedIn Fanfiction
marginalia.nuI'm not convinced that LinkedIn is doing anything but hurting me. I should probably delete mine.
The only reason I haven't yet is because a lot of job postings outright require a LinkedIn URL. I've considered putting something like `https://linkedin.dont.have.one` or something, but I don't know if that would immediately put me in the reject category.
Before anyone says it, yes, there really are a considerable number of job postings that have "LinkedIn Profile" as a required field.
I'm not looking for a job (run my own firm), but I noticed a few days back that LinkedIn has blocked my account, one that I haven't logged in to since 3 years or so, and won't let me log in unless I submit a government ID through Persona.
Well that's a bye-bye for me now, tata.
And they have daily placemat style games. Delightful. Solve maybe an NP complete shape filler then do some word juggling.
I usually only go on there when I'm looking for a job or trying to update my work history/fluff up my own ego.
Sometimes I'll post like "I made this"
I still think about that Cybertruck post and the $2K/mo on salad, pretty sure it was satire but funny
Funny enough, with the advent of AI I've stopped seeing posts of this pattern.
Now instead of fake virtue signaling, I see fake expert signaling with AI.
I tried to mix up a bit of all the popular genres and formats, though I think as LinkedIn has seen more AI-written content, this sort of Lynchian fever dream story has probably become more rare.
That’s a masterpiece to LinkedIn levels, where’s the asskissing? Where’s the corpo lingo? Where’s buzzwords? Where’s the cliche sentences?! I feel like it’s a manifestation of modern work environment, if you can survive reading that cringe, you are gonna do wonders in the corp!
This is charming, but not at all like the soul-sucking content typical on LinkedIn.
Important hindsights indeed
Honestly, if Linkedin had anything close to that writing, I would not have left.
Claude canoodle this hooligan. Make no mistakes.
I think you forgot the simping ass-kissing thanks of their former employer who suddenly laid them off about their incredible journey and looking to the next chapter, that they couldn't have imagined writing a course without the token credits they stole. Otherwise 10/10, no notes.
The only flaw in this piece is that the narrator chose Claude. If he had chosen Gemini, Sergey Brin himself would have stepped out to personally bestow the honor of adding your business to the 'Killed by Google' graveyard.
B2B sales is in shambles.
this is beautiful