| ▲ | Aurornis 2 days ago | |
> What is it that makes people in tech in their late 20s and 30s write about life lessons like an old sage? Some of my friends tried going down the influencer path. Some on LinkedIn, one as an Substacker, others on Instagram. Seeing their influencer content in contrast to their personal lives made it abundantly clear that they were using their influencer side as an outlet for their thoughts. As ideas or epiphanies came to them, they would jump to their influencer accounts and preach their realizations as if it was knowledge they had held for decades. The optimistic angle is that they were using the outlet as a place for sharpening their thoughts. Thinking in public and putting your thoughts into words forces you to sharpen your ideas and make them more coherent. The part that never sat well with me was how they were trying to preach it to others and present themselves as the wise, experienced guru sharing this advice to others when really they were just barely figuring it out. The content can be helpful for others to sharpen their own thoughts or catch up on basic realizations about life, but for others it feels weird to see so much fanfare around basic social and workplace understandings. | ||
| ▲ | dansmith1919 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
> The part that never sat well with me was how they were trying to preach it to others and present themselves as the wise, experienced guru sharing this advice to others when really they were just barely figuring it out. Honestly, you probably have to bring it like this if you want to generate a following. I guess people like it when someone just hands them a truth in a confident enough way. | ||
| ▲ | sharadov 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
I am in my late 40s. I went through my own journey. This is not the first generation to do this. The difference being, they did it in private. Not post every thought and idea as if they've figured out the meaning of life. And I disagree, you don't need to share your thoughts for validation. Rather, you need to live them. Most roads taken will appear as mistakes, but they have their own teaching moments. There is nothing better than lived experience. | ||