Things I miss from the world
I miss the days when a resume was read by tired eyes, not scanned by a cold script. Back then, getting a job relied on a human hunch—on a conversation where chemistry, potential, and character mattered more than satisfying a boolean search of keywords.
There was a certain dignity in being rejected by a person who at least took the time to read your name. Today, automated filters discard us before we even exist. I miss the "inefficiency" of taking a chance on someone who didn't check every box but had the hunger to learn.
I miss the world where Juniors understood they were Juniors—not because of a title, but because they respected the craft enough to know they were just beginning to master it.
Today, the "Junior" has been replaced by a relay for ChatGPT. We have lost the beauty of the "naive question" and replaced it with the arrogance of the "automated answer." I miss mentorship that felt like passing down a legacy, not a battle against an LLM.
I miss the LinkedIn that was boring.
The one where nothing happened for weeks, and then a former colleague announced a new job, and you felt genuinely happy for them. Today, the feed never stops. It screams for attention with manufactured vulnerability and calculated humility. Every post optimized for the algorithm.
I miss the cringe of an awkward professional selfie. It was human. Now we get AI-polished headshots and ghostwritten "thought leadership" from people who haven't had an original thought in years.
I remember when recruiters were translators between worlds. They understood the company. They understood you.
Today, a recruiter's inbox is a war zone. Ten thousand applications generated by bots, responding to job posts written by other bots, filtered by systems that reduce a human life to a keyword match score.
I miss being rejected by someone who at least pretended to care. Now we get silence. The void. We have optimized the humanity out of saying "no."
Perhaps the network we lost can be rebuilt. Not at scale. Not optimized. Not efficient. Just human.
But we need to understand what that means to you.
We're building something. Your answers shape what it becomes.