“I’m humbled to announce that I was nominated as one of the ‘40 under X top Y in the USA. I’m reminded of the famous quote from Dr Martin Luther King, where he said: ‘Yes’.”

One time somebody actually drunk LinkedIn a whole bunch of shit on their coworkers, that was pretty funny. The post was obviously deleted afterwards.

I only post useful links, tutorials, cool demo videos, actual best practices or lessons learned.

You do have to adhere a bit to the "house style" (lots of exclamation points! And emojis! And "shoutouts"!)

The real problem is LinkedIn is happy to ignore my own posting style in figuring out what I want to see. Everybody else wants chicken soup for the spul nonsense so that's all I get served.

It's already hard enough to find genuinely useful blogs and content, burying it in pap and self-promotion is algorithmic malice.

I find that the “LinkedIn experience” has a direct, causal relationship to the people you connect to and follow. Turns out, when you connect to the kind of people who post Facebook memes, you’ll end up seeing a lot of Facebook memes. When you connect to, and follow, nothing but recruiters, you end up with a lot of bad recruiter-spam.

When you do neither, and when you actually meet and connect with thoughtful people, you can find thoughtful content.

So you don't follow Hank Green on LinkedIn? He's conquered most other social media sites, and now has his sights set on LinkedIn. He's brilliant.