The Cost of Caring

Preface Now, we all know that LinkedIn has been a bountiful Lolcow for years and years, but this recent timeline that we’re in has seen it transform into a true hellscape. Nowhere else on the internet has in sloppification been more wholly embraced. It’s really hard to decide where to even begin with this platform. But we can’t talk about this new era of LinkedIn cringe without talking a little bit about design. Now, I swear I hardly ever see this kind of stuff out in the wild, but on LinkedIn, it is thriving. And these designs are not just hard to look at. I think they’re also a fascinating insight into what’s happening to LinkedIn users brains right now. It’s like when the cops check a suspect’s journals and they find like this, it’s telling us something. You see, these people have become so consumed with the ethos of hyper optimization and outproducing your competitors at all costs that when they make a flyer, diagram, or graphic, they need it to do the most. And they have clearly…