LinkedIn Mentifex here resisted joining LinkedIn for several years, until the invitations reached a tipping point and I decided to give it a try. Now I am always on the verge of abandoning LinkedIn, if just one more annoyance occurs. But there are some definite benefits, if you would like to make your grand Meme known to others who toil in the same fields that your Meme touches upon. Still there are some caveats that you should take heed of.
As a philosophic meemster, you are probably not interested in monetary rewards. Therefore you are not on LinkedIn in order to network for financial gain. You want to spread ideas, and you do not want to play oneupsmanship with the career go-getters and social climbers of the bourgeois ratpack on the treadmill of the ratrace. Therefore, where other LinkedInmates write a long and bragging curriculum vitae on their public profile page, you should write nothing at all. It's your links that count, not your bragging about the positions you have held. Whether you have worked in the Swiss patent office or as a parking lot attendant, you were biding your time and building up your theory of relatively greater significance than the actual work of your alma dayjob. People who wander around on LinkedIn have one MEGO (My Eyes Glaze Over) moment after another when they see all these long, self-congratulatory bloviations on LinkedIn. If you are applying for a job, fine. But if you are applying for a Technological Singularity or a fork in evolution, less is more and nothing is everything. (The ancient Greek expression "to pan" for "The All" is a dynamite expression that boggles the mind of any reader of Greek philosophy.) If all they see on your LinkedIn profile is three or four links to your Grand Meme which coincides with the world's Grand Meme, the very absence of a petulant profile will induce absent-minded clicking on the memetic links until ZAP you have infected one more quasi-professional noetic system with the unshakeable and awe-inspiring Meme of what you have been cumulo-nimbussing all your life. As for profiles, let them eat brioche, as Marie Antoinette used to say, but the meme got mistranslated as "Let them eat cake," and you can have your cake and eat it too by letting your weblog profile take the place of a dumb-donkey LinkedIn profile. Once you get your memes across, you can quit LinkedIn and act out the Country Western song: "If the Phone Don't Ring, You'll Know It's Me." -- http://www.linkedin.com/in/mentifex http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/taotmeme.html http://www.amazon.com/Arthur-T.-Murray/e/B004OKWAM8/ http://bookstore.iuniverse.com/Products/SKU-000540906/AI4U.aspx ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
