I checked my phone 87 times yesterday, and 62 of those checks were LinkedIn. That's not a typo, and it's not even the worst part. The worst part is that I don't actually mind. Which is exactly what bothers me about it. I've watched LinkedIn transform from a job board I begrudgingly updated into something closer to a professional nervous system. It's where I learn about industry shifts before they hit mainstream coverage. Where I've reconnected with former colleagues who became collaborators. Where I've discovered opportunities I never would have found through traditional networking. But here's the thing that keeps me up at night: the platform's algorithm doesn't just show me content—it shows me myself. Every like, every share, every passive scroll through my feed becomes data that shapes what I see next. And increasingly, what I see is what the algorithm thinks I want to see, which is becoming harder to distinguish from what I actually need ...