1) My contempt for LinkedIn is so visceral, so deep, that honestly, the rational reasons I’ve thought of so far don’t really justify it. And I think I’ve done a reasonable amount of introspection over it.

Maybe it’s the unholy pretentiousness of so many of the posters I see on here that triggers this or the absolute aversion of my nature to the “corporate” culture and identities we’ve collectively built around them, I don’t know. But I do know I will stop myself before I fall down this rabbit hole that might take anything from a few hours to weeks of my life from existential burnout.

Most top researchers and discoveries, I’ve noticed, have quite a bias for “good” and “kind” things. Just look at the Nobel Prizes for the last couple of years in which there weren’t really any earth-shattering discoveries. You’ll find that aplenty. Which is probably a better thing for a less antagonistic world, but intriguing nonetheless. Do they reflect the general distribution of humanity, or is this some by-product of the academia they surround themselves in that pushes them towards that bias?

All of this as a tangent to say, yes, there is a counter-point to the acceptability of the 92’ Nowak & Sigmund paper GTFT paper so I am not accused of being a propagandist for “goodness” at the compromise of truth… but the paper essentially found that forgiveness was a necessary part of all successful strategies when playing a multi-round, noisy like the real world, Prisoners Dilemma. (I would hate to gate-keep behind jargon, you can research each of these individual terms if you want to read more - you will find them).

I’m going to give LinkedIn one more chance, basically. And starting today, I’m running an experiment: I’m unfollowing everyone, and all new connections will be unfollowed by default. I will build out a new “following” list from scratch based on posts I’m interested in, and will see how the new feed treats me.

2) I will post, maybe, I think. But I will essentially treat it as a public jotbook, I will write for myself and perhaps often not be that coherent. It will be thoughts about Claude Code vs Cursor (as I have one thought now), or it could be a random shower thought I had about Apple’s long-term lead in desktops because of solid early decisions, despite a now-lack of innovation (one I shared with a friend earlier today). It could be more philosophical too.

The point is, don’t expect much. I’m certain if I feel anyone does I will be more hesitant to post anything until I polish it a million times over. So I’d like to think you don’t expect much, but I do hope it becomes something that makes you start to.