LinkedIn is a professional platform, indeed it is. But it now lacks originality, adventure and style. We might all be trying to position ourselves as an individual with unique skills, experiences and value. But how can we do that properly when we all write the same, design and talk the same?
Personally, I write for the following reasons:
- I write because it helps me learn better.
- I write as an outlet for me to talk about the things I like, obsess or geek over.
- I write because I want to learn to write better.
- I write as a medium for documenting my life.
- I write because I use writing as a platform to connect with like minded people. When a person resonates with something I've written, it brings about serendipity.
- I write because I want my writings to one day help someone or have even the tiniest impact on a person.
- I write as a way to properly process my thoughts and feelings.
- I write to make reference to things for future use.
And I write for those reasons and those reasons alone on my personal website. But on LinkedIn, the reason I write is very different. I write for show, for performance, for eye-service, for positioning. I don't write because I enjoy what I write about, I write because I am trying to position myself for opportunities, to tell recruiters that I am capable of handling the job well if given the opportunity. But I do not enjoy doing this, because although the end goal is for my good, how I go about it doesn't make the process palatable.
The way a lot of posts on LinkedIn are written makes me want to throw up, smash my phone and burn my clothes 😭. I no longer read people's post, even some of my old posts give me the irk. I wish to write freely, to express audaciously about myself, what I'm interested in and what I'm learning.
The goal was never to write for the algorithm because I honestly do not care for it, the goal was to write in order to bring about a serendipitous encounter between my work and my followers, new followers and recruiters.
And I wish to do this my way, not the popular way, not the LinkedIn way that lacks taste, feelings and originality. I had written about using AI to write and while that is good, it takes away some vital part of writing... THINKING. I write to think and when you start delegating such important tasks that helps us to grow intellectually, we lose touch, we start failing instead of rising.
Going forward, I'll write here for the sole purpose of:
-> thinking out loud
-> learning in public
-> building in public
You don't need to join me but you should think about it, what makes you different from the noise?
I suppose this is some sort of manifesto.
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