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Self-description inflation on LinkedIn

Self-description inflation on LinkedIn

Do you share my feeling that self-description inflation on LinkedIn got out of control?

Expert means nothing anymore. Basically anybody is considered one after a 4-hour online course or a 15-minute chat with a random LLM. Advocate or enthusiast often became a marker for "I hardly know what I am talking about". Fractional is often a synonym for unemployed.

So should we just accept it and mentally divide everything people write by 10, or should we do something about it and try to get back to normal?

What do you think?

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Published
17 Dec 2025
Topics
Data, Leadership, Linkedin, Madness