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With the Elonification of Twitter there has been a splittering of tech/biz audiences across different platforms, each with their own problems, and the split is different in different parts of the world.

It so happens that LI continues to be popular with the audience segment and geographic location I'm primarily working with.

Agree with all negative comments about the platform tho.

I think that's Kink.com :)

I also copy/paste non-cringe blog posts there occasionally. I think more people read them than on my actual blog.

The word you're looking for is self-respecting :)

On LI the majority of the stuff is so bad, I have zero self-awareness and just write whatever comes to mind (ie. an approach more like what you'd do in a comment like this one, than a "proper standalone post"). Many of my posts are just commentary on what's going on in the niche (eg. comments on a new AI model) which doesn't require a ton of extra research.

I also try to have a weekly/monthly cadence: at least one LI post a week, and one blog post on my own domain per month.

Like any sincere creative work, it takes effort. You may have to push yourself hard, yes. But like most things, it does get easier with practice.

I'd like to think that the era of AI slop will cause more people to become more sincere and thoughtful because it's a competitive advantage!

I guess it's the only place on the web now where people can post updates / follow people that isn't 1. so niche only 3 people are on it (federation), 2. twats and bots (X) or 3. narcissists (insta)

Doable but annoying.

Sure, I think it strange that these posters are posting directly into a site rather than writing locally and then copy/paste into the site so that the data on the site is no longer the only copy. But YOLO is real I guess

If you are the best consultant but you don't tell anyone about it, you'll not have many clients. In this case it's not about what you think is the best and most pure platform, but where your potential customers are hanging out.

I, unsurprisingly, am making the same observations. Sometimes I do think about shipping a slim Chrome extension (~Ad Blocker) to classify and filter out useless content. Could make it a bit more bearable and useful.

Part of the problem is the tech industry. There's plenty of people trying to get rich quick in tech and LinkedIn is essentially made for them. I don't see it as much in other fields where most people don't imagine themselves building unicorn AI startups with VC money and becoming obscenely rich.

It is a way to keep up with opinions about industry news, but at least for tech, I think this is all downstream of what's happening on "short-form" social media. It breaks on Twitter and then you get LLM-powered thought leadership on LinkedIn for the next two weeks.

When they added the story /post section it became a glorified Facebook .

My customers are in healthcare, and they don't hang out on X for example (which is where I get most of my tech news alongside HN).

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I put my situation as "Playing with a frisbee, alone." and your person says "Life is like a Frisbee. You can't control the wind. You can only adjust your throw."

It seems that an LLM is deliberately being forced to generate in the style of LLM slop.

How many of them source to real humans, though... who can tell anymore.

That number is certainly non-zero, though. To a first approximation every stupid thing you can imagine happens. But it may not happen as much as the bot engagement army makes you think it does.

Basically a bunch of sales, business consultants and HR people developed their own language and took over LinkedIn. They know it's bullshit, we know it's bullshit, but apparently there's enough money to be made doing this that it's worth the time. A couple of people I went to high school with dropped regular corporate jobs to do this stuff, and I know they're too smart to take it all literally.

I can only imagine it's like the famous Mackenzie interview, where they ask you to explain something you can't possibly know and judge you on how persuasive your bullshit is. They're all just showing off their sleazy salesmanship/thought leadership/persuasive abilities and through that conveying some sort of value, and presumably more productive conversations happen offline as a result.

Anyone under 35 seems to type things in multiple messages on message apps, rather than one :-)

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The problem with the later is AI’s entire sales pitch is to flatten those definition. If you can type it, the AI should be able to figure it out for the most part. You don’t even have to be very clear in your typing. You can just address the AI casually as you would address a person.

Entertainment apps are about increasing engagement. Like an AI driven game, ARGs, or this site. For example, Sora app was an AI entertainment app but it obviously was the wrong approach. I think there is an untapped potential there, but it remains under-explored because most are focusing on productivity now.

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It was a Tuesday. A sedan. A tabby who had genuinely never once respected a boundary in his fourteen years on this earth.

And in that moment, watching him go, something shifted in me.

Because here is what nobody tells you about grief: it will make you walk into the street in your bathrobe, screaming at a departing Camry, completely unhinged, in front of your entire neighborhood.

And THAT is when the sisterhood showed up.

Three women from my street — women I had waved at for six years without learning their names — came out of their houses. Not to comfort me. To scream at the Camry WITH me.

We did not know each other. We did not need to.

We were simply women, in various states of morning dishevelment, collectively losing it on a residential street at 8am, taking up ALL the space, unapologetically.

Mr. Whiskers would have hated every second of it. He was famously not a team player.

But we stood there anyway, four women building a table in a cul-de-sac, united by one flat cat and one disappearing Toyota, and I thought:

THIS is what they mean by collective power.

Rest easy, Mr. Whiskers. You changed the game for women everywhere.

You didn't mean to. But you never meant to do anything.

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AI below ---- Six weeks into my sabbatical I was genuinely thriving.

Week seven I started narrating my own grocery runs in the style of David Attenborough.

By week nine I had developed a parasocial relationship with the pigeons outside my window. I named them. I had favorites. Gerald was getting too big for his boots and I resented him for it.

My therapist suggested I "find structure." My mother suggested I "get a grip." My accountant sent a single email that just said the word "savings" with no other context.

The thing that actually pulled me back wasn't a TED talk or a journaling prompt.

It was a documentary about competitive Scrabble players — specifically the 1999 North American Scrabble Championship — where a retired postal worker named Marlon Hill drove fourteen hours to compete, placed forty-third, and described it afterward as the best day of his adult life.

Forty-third.

He was beaming.

Something about that broke the spell. The sabbatical had convinced me that returning to work required a perfect reason. Marlon just needed a reason.

Gerald the pigeon watched me update my LinkedIn profile from the windowsill.

He looked unimpressed.

Good enough.

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