Dovi's Digest Volume 215

The cringe of LinkedIn😬

Jul 05, 2024

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Hello all! Welcome to Volume 215 of Dovi’s Digest.

At the best of times, job hunting is tough. There’s the initial drudgery of trawling through job boards to find something that fits, reaching out to employees at a company to try to get an “in”, and dealing with constant rejection – if the company even deigns to reply. And this is prior to having an interview.

Granted, it’s much easier these days as everything has gone online. With resources like Glassdoor and Indeed, you can sort jobs by location, position, and even salary band. However, the undisputed king of job boards is LinkedIn. A curious mix of professional and personal, it’s a social network that’s trying hard to convince us it’s not. Like other social media, people are trying to put the best version of their lives on display, but unlike Instagram, TikTok et al where you can hide behind a veneer of anonymity, LinkedIn is specifically a place where the real you is on display.

So taking this all into account, why does it still feel very cringy to post on LinkedIn? Find out in this week’s headline article (and learn what to do to overcome that awkwardness).

Do you know a word you think others should know about? Submit it here!

In this week’s added extras:

Eight techniques for evaluating someone’s character.

An entire subreddit devoted to photos of people taken by delivery drivers as proof that they dropped off the food.

This neat interactive shows you what famous figures throughout history were alive at the same time (and how old they were).

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There were TWO correct answers to last week’s brainteaser, well done to Chaim E and Ariel S!! The answer and this week’s puzzle are below.

Keep those articles (and everything else) coming.

Have a great weekend,

Dovi

And now, the articles:

Quote of the Week:

“This war, like the next war, is a war to end war.” – David Lloyd George on the First World War

Word of the Week:

(Courtesy of Ruthie W)

Nascent

na·snt /ˈneɪsnt,ˈnasnt/

Adjective

(especially of a process or organisation) just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential.

"The nascent space industry."

Facts of the Week:

In 2018, the Thai Prime Minister directed reporters’ questions to a cardboard cut-out of himself.
Sarcasm is banned in North Korea.
70% of South Koreans aged under 30 are short sighted. South Korean women who wear glasses to work are seen as unprofessional.
A zoilist is someone who gets pleasure from finding fault.
A cumberground is someone whose only purpose is to take up space.
Whipper-tooties are feeble excuses for not doing something.
Crytoscopophilia is the urge to look through the windows of someone's house as you pass by.

Cartoon of the Week:

Tweet of the Week:

(Courtesy of Josh H)

Headline of the Week:

Brainteaser of the Week:

Place a three-letter word on the dashes to complete a word on the left and to begin another word with those letters on the right.

Example: e a r _ _ _ m e = e a r T H Y / T H Y m e

1. f e a t _ _ _ o i c = ?

2. c o u r _ _ _ n d a = ?

3. d i s p _ _ _ o v e r = ?

4. k e e _ _ _ s i s t = ?

5. r u n _ _ _ i c e = ?

Last week’s Brainteaser and Answer:

1. Sweden (267,570)

2. Norway (239,057)

3. Finland (178,947)

4. Canada (52,455)

5. United States (18,617)

6. Indonesia (17,504)

What does this list represent?

Answer:

The countries with the most islands (and the number of islands). Source.