The Water Cooler
I hate it here. But I keep trying to love it.
A LinkedIn blog.
To prompt or not to prompt? AI, LinkedIn and shakespeare
It’s 2:33 AM, and my laptop glows like a judgmental gibbous moon.
My wife has long since fallen asleep.
But I’m wide awake.
Scrolling LinkedIn.
Again.
On my screen, the endless feed of 2024 unfolds.
Yes. It’s yet another debate about AI.
Should you use it to write posts? Or does it make you a traitor to humanity?
Does its love of em-dashes signal genius or sociopathy? What’s an ‘em-dash’?
Is it any good, or are we all just pretending it is so we don’t get left behind? It was always FOMO, after all.
Is this post flopping, or is it just me?
Confession: LinkedIn has changed everything for me. For the worse.
→ My mornings are now spent refreshing my analytics like a crypto daytrader deep in a portfolio of tanking shitcoins.
→ My nights? Rewriting captions for posts with zero likes, hoping the almighty Algorithm might spare me a crumb of engagement.
→ And my career? Well, it’s still exactly where it was 2 months ago—in the crapper.
You want proof?