Here’s a hot take –
What I find most frustrating and annoying about LinkedIn these days is that people present their opinions and theories with utter conviction that they’re correct.
And of course they write this in “LinkedIn style.”
Using lots of dramatic sentences.
Separated into paragraphs.
Like each idea is so special that it needs to be absorbed in pure isolation.
Precious few people offer ideas accompanied by even the pretense of doubt. Rather, they think everything they say is complete gospel truth, devoid of any contextual variance. I understand the notion of “personal branding” and “fake it until you make it,” but there’s a point where your credibility comes into question when someone who genuinely knows more than you comes along and instantly knows you’re posturing.
For the record, half the ideas I come up with are ridiculous and impractical. And the only inviolate rule of business I know is that everything depends on context and circumstance. I wouldn’t be so bold as to tell someone that I know the 100% gospel truth about anything.
(I might have done this occasionally in the past, but I look back on these situations with an eye roll about the naivety of youth. As I get older, I’m convinced of fewer and fewer absolutes.)
That’s it. That’s the thought.