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LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe - Divinations
Compared with the fragmented, D.I.Y. Web I knew, social media felt strangely predictable. User profiles on new sites like LinkedIn or Flickr were templated and surrounded by ads. They offered preset options from categories and drop-down menus—age, location, institutional affiliation—and quantified influence through friend and follower counts. The n... See more
Kyle Chayka • Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet | The New Yorker
For many users, LinkedIn is primarily an online resume. There are a few segments of users, however, which are, in fact, starting to “live” on the site. The primary group is executive recruiters. Because of the breadth and quality of LinkedIn’s member base, recruiters are using it to identify, contact and check references on passive job seekers – i.... See more
FOLDS • LinkedIn Venture Capital Investment Memo from Bessemer Venture Partners -
And apparently, in more recent years, not only has LinkedIn become a depository for collective egos the likes of which you rarely see outside of a Cybertruck-and-Patagonia-vest-combo sales event, but alleged professionals have also just shrugged their shoulders and started using LinkedIn as a dating app
From https://www.theringer.com/2024/12/10/tech
... See moreLLMs and all such products tend to converge: on styles, on forms, on patterns; the “sameness” isn’t incidental, it’s actually core to what these technologies do, how they work; they will always have this quality; this quality is their modus operandi, really! There is no world in which LLMs write interesting things.
Humans care about what other human
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