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Who Died and Made You CEO: Genre Mimicry, Epistemic Trespassing, and the Applause Machine
LinkedIn has a genre problem.Not a content problem — the platform has always traded in self-presentation. A genre problem: the systematic borrowing of executive discourse by speakers who have not yet occupied the positions that discourse was built to describe. These posts share a structure. They borrow a register. And LinkedIn applauds every one of them.The standing ovation is the mechanism worth examining. Today, we’re looking at what makes it work — linguistically, structurally, and socially — and why the platform was built to make it inevitable. This is a public episode. If you'd like to…
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