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Other platforms are more genteel.
Other platforms are more genteel.


[[LinkedIn]], for example, is traditionally regarded as the most benign environment, where people speak soberly, though not without liberal helpings of [[passive aggression]] and a good old [[virtue signal]] every now and then, about their bona-fide commercial aspirations, and all are engagerd in the business of propelling [[Adam Smith]]’s invisible hand around the [[Ouija board]] for the betterment of [[Shareholder|shareholders]], [[Stakeholder capitalism|stakeholders]], and the general greater good.
[[LinkedIn]], for example, is traditionally regarded as the most benign environment, where people speak soberly, though not without liberal helpings of [[passive aggression]] and a good old [[virtue signal]] every now and then, about their bona-fide commercial aspirations, and all are earnestly engaged in the business of propelling [[Adam Smith]]’s [[Free market|invisible hand]] around the [[Ouija board]] for the betterment of themselves, their [[Shareholder|shareholders]], [[Stakeholder capitalism|stakeholders]], and the general greater good.


This does not stop people engaging in acts of immodesty, aggrandisement and, at the limit, utter fantasy when describing their own impact on the social history of commerce.
This does not stop them engaging in self-aggrandising acts of incautious immodesty and, at the limit, utter fantasy when describing their own impact on the social history of commerce.


A guide to those self-penned [[LinkedIn]] profile descriptions. We all know what they say, and let’s face it: you know what they ''mean''.  
A guide to those self-penned [[LinkedIn]] profile descriptions. We all know what they say, and let’s face it: you know what they ''mean''.