This weekend, I woke my LinkedIn profile from its hibernation and spent some time bringing it up to date and dusting off the cobwebs. The good news is that it gave me something to blog about!
I sent my profile into hibernation last fall for a variety of reasons. The main reason was just to come up for air as I found the constant barrage of “inspirational accomplishments” and “incredible journeys” overwhelming. Sprinkled with incredibly sad stories of people having to sell their houses after months of unsuccessful job hunting, made it just too much of an emotional roller coaster ride.
No offense to anyone who’s managed to accomplish anything during these difficult times. And my heart goes out to everyone who needs a job and is still struggling to find one. But I needed to step away from the notifications for a while.
Well, times up! I’m back online and I’m here to write this, let’s call it a, celebratory post.
Back online
To kick things off, I’d need some content for LinkedIn (as is the nature of the site), so I asked Claude (AI) to write a blog post about the style of LinkedIn posts in the style of a LinkedIn post. This is a task for AI because it’s not natural for me to write in, or about, the genre.
Unfortunately, I might have confused it. The AI was working in the context of my blogging-style prompt and you can see how it tries to follow my blog-post style while analyzing LinkedIn accomplishment theater, and while trying to make the post itself LinkedIn-worthy.
What follows is the AI-generated post that I wished I could have written.
I just published a blog post, and you won’t believe what happened next
Yesterday, I sat down to write a simple blog post about content strategy. What started as 800 words of practical advice somehow transformed into a LinkedIn-worthy tale of professional triumph that would make a motivational speaker weep with pride.
Here’s how it happened (and why we should probably talk about it).
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