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Yuri Bezmenov's avatar

Fantastic post. LinkedIn is the cringiest social network. Here are the cringiest LinkedIn flexes and tips to optimize your profile: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-flex-on-linkedin-cringe-contest

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Leah Tharin's avatar

How to subvert subversion? Dr. Yuri Bezmenov. I shall spend time on reading some material. The title is subversive.

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Brendan Hufford's avatar

lol. Are we all picturing the same 3 people while we’re reading this??

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Leah Tharin's avatar

I know that some of them saw this but don't say anything :D

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Leta Lista's avatar

yes, Brendan, we are :)

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Dave Kang's avatar

Amen to all of this, it’s also true of Instagram, Twitter etc. Someone figures out how to gain followers by talking about gaining followers then sells you a course on gaining followers. It’s become a bizarre circular MLM scheme.

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Patricia René's avatar

Well said and thank you for saying it!!!

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Ryan Walsh 🟢's avatar

You're making great points, and I wonder if you have any articles where you tear apart corporate America. I bet you could make similarly strong points about _most_ kinds of capitalism :-)

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Amarinder Sidhu's avatar

Great Post. It is a survivor bias taken to the extreme - just because they make 6 or 7 figure without a real product or service, everybody else should try it.

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Leah Tharin's avatar

Yeah pretty much, good analogy

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Leta Lista's avatar

Oh f*ck them, hopefully, this bubble won't last long

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Adam Judelson's avatar

Well said. Marketing advice without a product implies that people would buy literally anything if only the marketing were strong enough. Totally false and skips the entire "product must be valuable" side of the equation.

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