LinkedIn Park ft. Will Davies

This is a preview of a bonus episode! listen to it, along with our archives, on our patreon! This week, we’re joined by academic and author Will Davies, to talk about his attempts to ask and answer one simple question: WTF is LinkedIn? In a recent newsletter, Will argues that LinkedIn, as one of the last remaining text-first platforms, has been able to sustain a style of posting that other platforms have struggled with – a style that’s positive, sincere and largely absent of snark and irony. The result, he says, is a strange form of written communication – exchanges written as declarations in single-spaced lines, endless congratulations and invitations to ‘connect’, and in many cases, executives and CEOs oversharing their personal triumphs and tragedies to prospective clients and jobseekers. We talk about how LinkedIn has changed over the past decade, how and why it’s become useless for anyone trying to find a job, and how its chaos both defines, and is reflective of, an employment market that doesn’t really make sense anymore. Follow and subscribe to Will on Substack: https://willd10.substack.com/ Read Will’s article on Substack : https://willd10.substack.com/p/what-is-linkedin --…