Today's world is hyper connected. I am not so sure what it means but you hear it a lot. It is probably hyper but not sure how connected it is. Sugar (fermented or not) is available in many ways than before and so getting hyper is easy. It is probably more a threat than cocaine since it is sold legally.
And what is this connected stuff? Most people I encounter seem disconnected from reality. So going back to this assumption that we are connected there are subtle and no so subtle instances of how brands and companies and middle men try to portray someone -
A linkedin profile for somebody working for X years at a place advertises to the connected network that so and so is CELEBRATING X years @ Such and Such Inc.
Do we know if (s)he is celebrating or cringing? Perhaps a better way to portray will be - So and So LASTED X years @ such & such inc.
Then it exhorts the readership to go ahead and congratulate them for this lasting effect. Really?
Most folks that are on this so called professional network move around every two years anyway and therefore the celebration must be short lived. So why highlight it? Why assume?
More money than god - This is another phenomenon - with lots of Silicon Valley types getting unheard of sums showered on them for an executive or sometimes non executive role. The media goes after it with gusto portraying how such and such was the right pick for this and that reasons. Reality is all people like MONEY. So why not just say that and shut up. Or why say anything at all? Frankly why someone left somebody and went somewhere is a pointless exercise in speculation given that only person that really knows (let us hope) is the leftor (not even the leftee).
All else is just assumptions. Rightee?
And what is this connected stuff? Most people I encounter seem disconnected from reality. So going back to this assumption that we are connected there are subtle and no so subtle instances of how brands and companies and middle men try to portray someone -
A linkedin profile for somebody working for X years at a place advertises to the connected network that so and so is CELEBRATING X years @ Such and Such Inc.
Do we know if (s)he is celebrating or cringing? Perhaps a better way to portray will be - So and So LASTED X years @ such & such inc.
Then it exhorts the readership to go ahead and congratulate them for this lasting effect. Really?
Most folks that are on this so called professional network move around every two years anyway and therefore the celebration must be short lived. So why highlight it? Why assume?
More money than god - This is another phenomenon - with lots of Silicon Valley types getting unheard of sums showered on them for an executive or sometimes non executive role. The media goes after it with gusto portraying how such and such was the right pick for this and that reasons. Reality is all people like MONEY. So why not just say that and shut up. Or why say anything at all? Frankly why someone left somebody and went somewhere is a pointless exercise in speculation given that only person that really knows (let us hope) is the leftor (not even the leftee).
All else is just assumptions. Rightee?
what of the rightee? what could be his rights to be portrayed rightly?
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