LinkedIn is ridiculous. The AI-written humblebrags. The heroic layoff stories. The leadership lessons from airport delays. The posts that make you want to close the app and reconsider literacy. And yet… What if LinkedIn is still too useful to abandon? My new article argues that LinkedIn is not just a cringe machine. It is also one of the last public mirrors of the labour market: absurd, artificial, annoying, and still strangely necessary.

Instead of resisting, we should embrace the opportunities AI provides. Educators have the chance to redefine learning objectives, focusing less on rote memorization and more on analysis, creativity, and interdisciplinary thinking. Let students use AI to generate ideas, then challenge them to refine those ideas,