Philosophy From the Front Line
Sep 22, 2026 · 41 min · 13 segments
Daniel and Rob discussed the importance of tailoring a LinkedIn profile to match specific professional goals rather than using generic military terminology. Keyword Integration: Daniel recommends…
Daniel AlfonGuestSo one of the things about building LinkedIn is your profile matters.
If you're leveraging it as a tool for business, than using your platform is there.
It's a social media platform, but it's also marketing, right? And that's what people fail to realize.
And it's much, much different from a lot of other platforms.
And there are some business oriented ones.
The business oriented ones are typically like the LinkedIn of the world.
And you could use Indeed or some of the other profile management things that allow you to look for jobs, right? you're not going to get into, I would hope, you don't get into a deep philosophical discussion on politics on LinkedIn, right? That's not the platform for it.
There's a thousand other platforms that do that.
And if you are one of those people that like to debate, like throwing that type of content out there on the platform is not going to help you land an opportunity, right? And so I think there's a-
It certainly was not beneficial for any veterans or any professional to discuss politics or religion or anything that is slightly controversial.
but LinkedIn has become less serious and less conservative, and you would find islands of TikTok within the LinkedIn platform.
Am I saying this is the norm? No, but it used to be frowned upon, and now it depends not only on the topic, but do you make it interesting?
Yeah.
Even if we have opposite opinions about something, Are you fun to read? Are you interesting? Do I learn something from your perspective, even if I disagree 100% with what you're saying? If you do this right, then yes, you could discuss topics that were once considered risky.
Yeah.
And that makes sense.
I think I guess I guess to your point, it's it's it's what you make of it.
Right.
So like if you're trying to present if you're trying to present yourself as a lobbyist or a political type person, then that's absolutely going to be the content that you're going to present.
Right.
So one of the things about building LinkedIn is your profile matters.
If you're leveraging it as a tool for business, than using your platform is there.
It's a social media platform, but it's also marketing, right? And that's what people fail to realize.
And it's much, much different from a lot of other platforms.
And there are some business oriented ones.
The business oriented ones are typically like the LinkedIn of the world.
And you could use Indeed or some of the other profile management things that allow you to look for jobs, right? you're not going to get into, I would hope, you don't get into a deep philosophical discussion on politics on LinkedIn, right? That's not the platform for it.
There's a thousand other platforms that do that.
And if you are one of those people that like to debate, like throwing that type of content out there on the platform is not going to help you land an opportunity, right? And so I think there's a-
It certainly was not beneficial for any veterans or any professional to discuss politics or religion or anything that is slightly controversial.
but LinkedIn has become less serious and less conservative, and you would find islands of TikTok within the LinkedIn platform.
Am I saying this is the norm? No, but it used to be frowned upon, and now it depends not only on the topic, but do you make it interesting?
Yeah.
Even if we have opposite opinions about something, Are you fun to read? Are you interesting? Do I learn something from your perspective, even if I disagree 100% with what you're saying? If you do this right, then yes, you could discuss topics that were once considered risky.
Yeah.
And that makes sense.
I think I guess I guess to your point, it's it's it's what you make of it.
Right.
So like if you're trying to present if you're trying to present yourself as a lobbyist or a political type person, then that's absolutely going to be the content that you're going to present.
Right.
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