Throwaway.. because I don’t want to tie my actual account to this one. People – how do you deal with the ongoing requirements it appears that jobs place, such as social network involvement. To me – this means LinkedIn posting rubbish, Twitter bollocks, public GitHub repos for sharing – even the asks from employers to post here. I, as a person have zero accounts anywhere, except for one here. I’ve been gainfully employed in industry for ~2 decades, and frankly I have neither need nor desire to have a “social profile”. I speak at conferences when I want to, sans twitter, linkedin, etc. Moreso – I find the amount of developer advocate written blogspam (let’s just call it marketing crap) only contributes to the web problems – and hence have started to block… everything, including my employer’s search results (personally, with a plugin in DuckDuckGo and Google. I’m not interested in writing blog things. I’m interested in continuing my ongoing work as a principal engineer, without marketing externally on the fakery of “how great we/I am/are”, or “humbelbragging”, or frankly any of the rubbish I keep encountering. I just want to focus on the things we’re collectively doing to be successful. So… how do you handle this?
Story Published at: January 10, 2023 at 10:04AM
Story Published at: January 10, 2023 at 10:04AM