Author: William Lise

I am a long-term (50-plus years) resident of Japan, and former electrical engineer, and I have been translating and interpreting for over four decades here in Japan.

Formulaic LinkedIn Handwaving

Are people coached to make formulaic LinkedIn videos?

Many I’m shown by the Microsoft algorithm feature individuals holding a tiny microphone in one hand and wildly waving their other hand in every which direction, while they breathlessly spurt a message laced with every business buzzword you can imagine and some that no one can imagine or understand.

Their message will “land” (can we please ban that word?) and it will be a very soft landing, because there usually is not much hard content in it, but rather mostly an apparent desperate belief in the “LinkedIn success” fantasy.

The nothingburger AI voice is here.

[Microsoft didn’t wait to shadow-ban this LinkedIn post, they did it immediately.
But here’s the thing. They don’t give a shit.
Microsoft is not just looking out for its AI promotion agenda. They’re also socially irresponsible assholes.]

The post that was shadow-banned by the Microsoft broligarchic algorithm:

It’s not A, it’s B.
But here’s the thing…,
They didn’t just C, they D-ed.

Everything lately seems to sound like the above, filled with the same constructions and with the same nothingburger AI voice.
Can’t people write anymore without AI?
The bar has been lowered so much you’ll trip over it if you’re not careful.