I’m looking for a new job right now and I keep thinking “why didn’t I keep up a LinkedIn profile for the last year?” This. This is why. Who subjects themselves to this voluntarily?
Rav☠️
Freelance journalism/computer science/policy expert Formerly @ Duke Reporters' Lab focusing Mis/Disinformation and fact-checking mostly with humans, and sometimes ML/AI stuff. Based in NYC, previously a lot of places in Europe/Africa/North America
I’m looking for a new job right now and I keep thinking “why didn’t I keep up a LinkedIn profile for the last year?” This. This is why. Who subjects themselves to this voluntarily?
Rav☠️
Reminds me of pitching a startup in 2013. Every meeting in SF the VCs asked “how long until a million users?” In NYC they asked “how long until you can pay yourself?” NYC just isn’t jumping on the bubble.
TechmemeCrunchbase: SF startups hit a record of 1,404 seed deals in 2025, while the number of NYC seed deals has dropped over the past three years, to 666 in 2025 (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
“Paddington Bear Has a Midlife Crisis”
The GuardianPaddington 4: Armando Iannucci to write bear’s next movie with Thick of It and Veep cowriter