i think linkedin-posting is routinely dogged online because everyone on there posts the same kind of either bootlicker lapdog content like "i love my job. i love my coworkers. employment is incredible!" or the kind of pretentious aspirational thought-leader drivel that reads as (or is legitimately expressive of being) arrogant and self-important to a fault
i think there's room on the platform for a kind of deviation that humanizes professional life, whether that's talking about your work and what it means to you or talking about broader industry trends in a novel way or possibly discussing the challenges of existing in the professional landscape... of course linkedin is where your job, peers, and future employers are, so maybe that kind of content and demonstrated independent thinking is a liability, which is probably why everyone sticks to the tried-and-true formats that are dogged as cringe or banally evil
i think if you want to post to linkedin you should because why not, but i think the "where" (linkedin) is not really as important as the "what", "why", or "how" – if you're satisfied with your answers to those questions go with god and whatnot. what determines if you're cool and relatable if you post on linkedin is if your linkedin posts are cool and relatable!
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where am i supposed to get 20+yrs of experience as a fresher bro? on top of that why no one is talking about how linkedin is the most fakest social media on the internet.
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a treatise on the attention economy - checked it out on libby and got through it over the course of a work day, a lot of really interesting social and cultural explorations about how time itself is the final frontier of hypercapitalism and what decommodification of our attention and time should look like
the book starts with a story about the oldest redwood tree in oakland and how the only reason it’s still standing is bc it’s unmillable, and how being uncommercializable is essential to our survival. it ends with an exploration of alt social media platforms (mostly p2p ones) and what keeping the good parts of the social internet and rejecting the bad ones should look like
all in all a super valuable read; my only nitpick with the book is that odell isn’t just charting the attention economy but also attempting to “solve” it and relate it back to broader concepts about labor and social organizing, but her background is in the arts which leads to some really wonderful references to drive the points home while also missing some critical racial + socioeconomic analyses that one would expect (or at least really appreciate) from the book she promises to deliver in the introduction. but this does also make the book easier to read which is good because everyone should definitely engage with what she has to say
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