Banishing Imposters

I used to hate LinkedIn. I’m gradually getting used to it.

LinkedIn used to be my nemesis.

I could manage about 15 minutes of it every day, before closing it amidst a huge cloud of imposter syndrome; one that completely took over.

It wasn’t that I necessarily thought less of my subject of expertise - after all, I can always claim the 30 years of experience and that is a marker that doesn’t vanish - but all I ended up with was the vague idea that everyone else is better than me. Purely from their ability to talk about their expertise in a way that didn’t sound fake.

After months of this while also realising that I needed LinkedIn as a marketing outlet when I actually managed to press on with promoting my own thing, I finally caved and bought access to a training course that teaches me how to write on linkedin. It’s mainly about hooks, creating interesting posts, and I must say that for the last two weeks I’ve posted every day and I suck at it.

But the training and getting used to it is necessary.

This is really just a check-in post - I’m still writing, still trying to get LinkedIn to work for me, and I almost forgot to write here today, so more detail will be forthcoming in another post.

While LinkedIn is still a AI slop hellsite for the most part, it has its little gems, and I’m trying very hard to be one of them.