Disclaimer: This is an opinion piece and it is the result of years of watching the same pattern play out in different industries, and sort of running out of patience. If you are one of the people doing honest, careful work in a field that no longer rewards it, this post is for you. However, if you are one of the people I am about to describe, then you probably already know who you are and you might want to keep on reading nevertheless. The tl;dr is at the bottom. A few weeks ago, I found myself in one of the rare situations in which I was mindlessly doom-scrolling on LinkedIn just to exclusively see one post after another that contained no actual information and not a single sentence that would have lacked any more substance if you replaced every noun in it with a different noun. There were thought leaders leading no thoughts, founders founding nothing of actual value, strategists describing strategies that amounted to “be visible” and “ship fast”, and an alarming number of…
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