# LinkedIn is not a social or professional network, it's a learning network

<https://tomcritchlow.com/2024/03/27/linkedin-learning/>

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## What Jamie wrote

Critchlow has a fresh perspective for LinkedIn's positioning. There are no shortage of "LinkedIn is cringe" blog posts out there. And the updates are sometimes particularly, well I guess, cringe. But this focus on learning would be a brilliant push.

> What if LinkedIn positioned itself not as a professional network or social network but as a **learning network**. A personal learning network for every user - centered on their personal development.

Critchlow says he already did this. 

> The magic here is that LinkedIn is already the best place for learning. I took the time to re-orient my feed from old connections to people I actually wanted to follow and now my LinkedIn feed is higher signal to noise than Twitter, Threads, Bluesky and the rest of em.

For what it’s worth, LinkedIn is the one place that I've found serious engagement and uptake with the Weekly Thing. I try to focus my emails on learning and I think it aligns with this approach.

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