I’m realizing more and more how alien LinkedIn feels to me.

Not just uninteresting. Not just inconvenient. Alien in its very structure. It is a space of corporate busyness, robotic politeness, and constant self-packaging. There, a person seems to turn themselves in advance into a job description, a career signal, a neat professional silhouette.

And at some point I realized: I don’t want to be there even formally.

A good professional is not made of competencies alone. They are made of taste, character, attentiveness, experience, strangeness, pain, curiosity, mistakes, pauses, inner fire.

And LinkedIn seems to say:

“No, no. Leave only the title, the case study, the achievement, the team thank-you, and five bullet points about leadership.”

Not a person. A profile.

P.S. Symbolic how it turned out: May 1.