How to become wise in 30 LinkedIn posts

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This post was inspired by a conversation with my friend Gabriel Solomon about how LinkedIn may be the most paradoxical place on the internet. It is a marketplace of ideas where everyone is quite certain they are a monastery of wisdom.

It overflows with juicy insights dispensed by thought leaders, visionary disruptors, and those who discovered legacy sometime between updating their headline and accepting a connection request. Everyone is building what lasts. Everyone has frameworks. It is, in short, a place where formation is optional, confidence is mandatory, and legacy is due by Q4.

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I am pleased—no, humbled—to announce that I have become a Thought Leader.

This occurred shortly after I updated my bio. The transformation was subtle at first. I began speaking in complete sentences. I referred to my calendar as a runway. I stopped having problems and started having headwinds. This is how you know it’s working.

My book exists for founders who have no blueprint, which is fortunate because blueprints imply forethought. Instead, I offer “Modular Wisdom,” each one compatible with venture capital, personal adversity, and at least three current political movements.

The system, as I have mentioned repeatedly, was not built for me. I know this because I am still inside it. This gives me both credibility and grievance, a rare and powerful combination.

Some have asked whether I succeeded. Yes.

Others have asked how. Strategy.

Still others have asked when. Soon.

My podcast has listeners in the same way the moon has admirers. They are aware of it. They do not engage. This is long-term value. Rome was not built in a day, nor was it monetized immediately.

Each episode features bold conversations with myself, occasionally interrupted by a guest who agrees with me differently. We cover funding, scaling, exits, and legacy, often simultaneously.

Legacy is especially important. I began working on mine early, before it could form opinions of its own. I treat it gently but firmly, like a brand. People sometimes suggest that legacy is something bestowed by others, long after you’re gone. This is outdated thinking and ignores the power of intention. History respects a man with bullet points.

I connect with people on LinkedIn with whom I share no mutuals, no context, and no reason. It’s called expanding the ecosystem. Look it up. If they reply, it is validation. If they don’t, it confirms the system was not built for me.

Critics argue that I recycle political talking points. This is false. Recycling is passive. I upcycle them by removing sharp edges, adding sincerity, and presenting them as personal revelation.

My lived experience is my credential. I have lived through things. Some of them were difficult. All of them were formative, especially the parts that failed quietly and left no evidence.

I do not claim to have all the answers. I merely have frameworks that strongly imply them. I believe in building what lasts, on your terms, provided your terms align with mine, the market, and a vision board I made during a layover. Should things not last, we must remember that endurance is subjective and impact can be retroactive.

In closing, I invite you to join me in blind faith because it sounds polished. Together, we can build something meaningful, scalable, and vaguely inevitable.

Legacy is calling.
Please RSVP.