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What are houses for but to decide in. Especially in Jacksonville Beach - a thriving center of growth and endless possibilities.

The sort of admirable foresight to be expected from a distinguished CEO/Investor Advisor.

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I never asked linkedin to show me posts like this. It does it anyway.

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Just your totally normal LinkedInfluencer

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If my financial advisor posted this, I’d fire him immediately

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Just gonna drop this here and let you all amuse us with comments.

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Way to brag about being selective in the age of slop.

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Anyone else feel like LinkedIn is basically the new facebook: proposal/wedding announcements, marketers peddling some schemes, parents posting about their kids’ graduations. And recently academics dis… more

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I wonder when the LinkedIn “thought leaders” constantly posting about how AI will eat consulting will realize that AI already ate the “thought leader” industry.

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We’re still doing these posts, huh? 🙄

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Hide your Slacks, hide your Teams. The LInfluencers are out for clout.

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All the cringy posts make sense now.

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WFH is life threatening.
Sounds like she had a cr*p job to me.

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What’s this nonsense…

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Using your husbands death to get a job is crazy work

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Hope AI can tackle posts like this one next but the bar might be too high.

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What could possibly lead someone to think this is a good LinkedIn profile picture.

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works at Booz Allen Hamilton

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This lady is going off about ICE at airports, but ignores that families and elderly are having to wait in TSA lines for hours to fly.

This is just fear mongering, I have brown family and immigrant family and no one is walking around scared like this lady explains. Not that people dont feel that way, but it's 100% fear mongering.

Also, a 'Texas-born Mexican' is called an American. I swear people want attention SO BAD.

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Does anyone want to read more?

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I have a new LinkedIn rule: the first picture I see of a shirtless man, I close the tab. I now spend almost no time on LinkedIn.

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Enthusiast

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I guess so?

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Did this guy just reinvent the “E = mc^2 + AI” post

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Is it just my algorithm, or has LinkedIn quietly turned into a fitness influencer convention?

Since when did networking mean watching someone’s abs day between job updates and leadership insights?

Genui… more

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Can we stop calling it “Fractional” CFO, CTO, CMO, COO, etc?

We all know you’re just Part-Time and not qualified enough for the permanent role elsewhere.

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Commenting on your own post from another account… why?

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Lol. Read through to the end.

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Seriously, when did this become the norm for LI posts 🤔 no one even bats an eye anymore.

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Genius

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The AI slop expert we didn’t know we needed.

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AI generated image accompanied by a long-winded AI generated caption (not pictured), attracting 90+ AI generated comments. Absolute hell hole.

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Leave it to recruiters to make it about themselves and be obnoxious

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That’s a mighty strong marketing move by Agnieszka. Genuinely impressive to see!!

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Someone needs to start an “AI Cringe” bowl. I feel like I’m knee-deep in AI garbage with fake singers and bands slipping into my Spotify radio playlists and friends sending me TikTok reels of midget donkeys in Pet-store pens. Even my 70-year-old mother is sending me videos of dogs jumping off diving boards in canine “Olympics”.

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Making something that happens on everyday flights appear as LinkedIn breakthrough thought leadership. Thank you McKean for commenting the obvious.

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