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.

individuals will willingly (or, what is far more insidious, without knowingly) surrender their entire intellectual and and experiential life, the sum total of their knowledge, memories, judgment, and emotional history to the machine

An e-signature, by design, only verifies access. It does not verify soul.

The next time the camera pans your way, ask yourself: are you ready for the still frame? The one that captures who you actually are, unfiltered, unplanned, unperformed.

It’s not what you say in the room, it’s whether people feel safe telling you the truth. It’s not the strategy, it’s the silence before you speak. It’s the feeling your team gets when you walk in, even if nothing gets said aloud. You either carry a subtle weight or a subtle leak. Everyone knows which. No one names it.

There is a particular danger in spending too much time around personal development. One begins to develop opinions about gratitude journals, resilience frameworks, breathing exercises, leadership retreats, meditative interventions, emotional intelligence diagnostics, purpose workshops, reflective journaling, and seminars where everyone is invited to “share one word” about how they are arriving in the room. The correct answer is rarely “hungry,” although it often should be. Ov