01 — Recent writing
PERSONAL BRANDING

LinkedIn personal brand audit: 15 signals that make or break your profile.

A scored breakdown of every element recruiters, clients, and AI search engines evaluate.

LinkedIQ Editorial14 min read·
CONTENT ANALYSIS

AI vs human LinkedIn posts: what actually gets more engagement in 2026.

Engagement data, Reddit sentiment, and platform research on which performs better and why.

LinkedIQ Editorial12 min read·
LINKEDIN STRATEGY

LinkedIn Algorithm 2026: How the Feed Actually Decides What Gets Seen.

The three-stage pipeline every post goes through, what triggers spam filters, and why algorithm changes favor depth over volume.

LinkedIQ Editorial11 min read·
PERSONAL BRANDING

Your headline is doing most of the work. Most of you have wasted it.

The LinkedIn headline is the most-scanned, least-considered piece of writing on your profile. Here's what the strong ones do differently.

LinkedIQ Editorial6 min read·
LINKEDIN STRATEGY

Why "consistency" is the worst advice given to senior engineers.

The cadence-first playbook works for creators. It fails for the staff engineer with a real job. Here's the model that actually compounds.

LinkedIQ Editorial9 min read·
CONTENT ANALYSIS

Saves are the metric that matters. Likes are the metric you see.

The signal that actually maps to professional authority — and how to read it on the work you’ve already published.

LinkedIQ Editorial7 min read·
ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP

How to write about technical work without it sounding like a recruiter wrote it.

The “results-oriented” performance-review voice is killing your LinkedIn. Six concrete patterns for writing about technical work that reads like a human.

Coming soon~10 min read
CONTENT ANALYSIS

Hooks: the four patterns that work, and the dozen that don't.

The opening line decides everything. Four hook patterns drive most save behavior on senior-IC writing — here they are, with examples and counter-examples.

Coming soon~8 min read
PERSONAL BRANDING

Positioning is a contract you write with your audience.

If your headline says one thing and your posts say another, the audience optimizes for the version they trust — and that's never the version you want.

Coming soon~12 min read
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A short, sharp essay every Sunday morning.

Field notes on LinkedIn strategy and authority-building for senior technical professionals. Slow newsletter. Long thinking. No churn.