LinkedIn is loud, and corporate is hell

I think it's more just a bizarre platform for us to gawk at. I'm not really certain why LinkedIn even has social features available if it's purporting to be a professional space and especially a professional space that is going to be your first impression for a new job prospect. Maybe having a loud profile is a positive to some sorts of recruiters but posting anything beside resume information on that site just seems like a guaranteed malus on future prospects. Even if you'd like to run a live blog on some project you're working on as a sort of portfolio - do it on a platform you have full control of in case you want to rescind it or modify it later.

I only use LinkedIn when im looking for a job or information from people I know. Or asking good people if they're looking.

Unfortunately I tend to miss people reaching out to me because I dont check it otherwise.

Small business it actually can be a meaningful way to refer people digitally and make business connections.

I think big business it's also a way of keeping in contact with former colleagues so that when you're interested in jumping to another company you can do it easily in one place.

Otherwise it's a place for sales people to pump out garbage posts.

Haha, you're absolutely right. But the kind of thing he's complaining about is on HN too. "Why the Cloudflare outage should never have happened" and so on and so forth. Everyone has wisdom to share but somehow they're never equivalently successful.

"As a third-year student in Computer Science at the University of Tzatziki, I would never use unwrap, I'd use expect, so then the error log that I skipped over would be accurate..." blahblahblah

Love that one.

I can't help but notice that LI helped the author to get the job he's about to lose.

I really feel bad for folks still in early career, nowadays. I am grateful to be retired.

When I was first let go of my job, and ran into the SV ageism, it infuriated me, but I think that it may have actually been one of the best outcomes I could have hoped for.

> post more from the heart

The linkedin cringe comes from this place.

I wish LinkedIn was that good. In my eyes LinkedIn has become "Facebook but with resumes" - I accept that I should have a profile on there for resume visibility but there are so many features built into that site that just should not exist and so many genuinely valuable things around job seeking they could do that they're simply not.

It's an excellent example of a product that could be massively improved by just removing things - look back to early linkedIn days where their email notifications actually meant there was likely something relevant that you care about there. Now they've created a platform where the valuable is buried in piles of irrelevant slop.

I had faced something similar as Roman and am now building many things with these AI tools that I’ve always wanted. Never simultaneously felt more uncertain and hopeful, and wonder if I would do well to be my own boss. The challenge/learning now is getting it monetized.

It has gotten way worse since the Ai rise. Before it was the "how to be a winner" mindset now everything gets posted. Mostly AI garneted slop with glitchy AI images that advertise just plain false information. No one corrects stuff and barley anyone actually clicks a link an a post - no one cares. Just mindless self fap,fap,fap, like TikTok but for "professional" and business people

I mean, LinkedIn was like this before ChatGPT. The advent of LLMs just made this sort of corporate shitposting explode as everyone could now write one with such little effort.