I Deleted a LinkedIn Post — Learning to Be Wrong in Public

Your job is to make people think, not to be right.

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LinkedIn and I have a love-hate relationship. We fight like a married couple who have been together for one too many years.

Sorry, LinkedIn. I deleted a post on your platform because I was wrong (again).

It started out on a Saturday morning. Two days prior, I wrote a short text post with a first sentence that read, “How to *not be a LinkedIn Influencer.” I published the post and thought nothing of it. A few hours later I went back to LinkedIn to retrieve a link from my direct messages.

I glanced over the post again. Then I read the comments section which is usually a bad idea. A few of the comments pointed out many things that were wrong with my point of view. It was hard to read those negative comments. It was like looking in the mirror and going “Are you happy with yourself?”

The honest answer was no. This post was not me and it violated the values I try to live my life by (keyword being try). So, without thinking too much about it, I deleted that LinkedIn post. Here’s what it can teach you.

Your job is to make people think, not to be right