My complete and utter 🐂💩 cardWell, this was a weird one for me. I saw this posted on people's timelines on LinkedIn, and I thought I'd give it a try to see what kind of things it gleaned about me.  I didn't change any of the automatically generated text (I assume it's some kind of GPT). I used LinkedIn more in 2023 than I had used it in the past.  And, mostly to boost messages posted

Well, this is probably old news, but a while back I got this note from LinkedIn saying that my profile was among the top 5%.  Pretty cool! I must admit that I was simultaneously creeped out, and delighted that I was that "popular" on the web.  I am wondering what that says about my personality.  I am also wondering, in the grand scheme of things, what this 5% means.  Maybe for

The other day one of my long time friends and colleague posted on Facebook a quick pondering: is LinkedIn the right place for academics? The underlying thought is that LinkedIn is very instrumentalist and positivist in how it represents someone. Essentially what this means is that we setup profiles that represent a reality that we want to market to others, and we want to pass on that reality (our

Εδώ και καιρό χρησιμοποιώ τρία κοινωνικά δίκτυα (social networks) να βρω και να συνδεθώ με παλιούς και νέους φίλους, συγγενείς, και συνεργάτες. Τα δύο μεγαλύτερα που χρησιμοποιώ είναι το facebook και το LinkedIn. Φυσικά υπάρχουν αρκετά