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New Ways to Build Meaningful Connections, Grow Your Side Hustle, and Earn on LinkedIn
LinkedIn's October 15 announcement describes a testing-stage Network feed, digital business cards, a creator dashboard and monetization tools. Profile notes require Premium; Advice Sessions require Business Premium in the U.S.; In-Stream Ads are limited to eligible creators. The announcement is free to read, not all features are free or widely available.
ArticleFreeDelvetown
A community platform for developers and tech enthusiasts.
WebsiteFreeAllison's List
A professional network for women that doesn't require networking. A private list of women in tech.
WebsiteFreeThe Technology Behind LinkedIn's Fight Against AI Slop
A LinkedIn engineering leader describes how the platform detects and down-ranks generic, repetitive AI-generated posts in the feed, and what that means for members who post.
ArticleFreeMathstodon
A volunteer-run Mastodon social network for people who love math, with LaTeX rendering in the web interface. Any conversation following the code of conduct is welcome, and the operators are independent of Mastodon GmbH or Mastodon Inc.
CommunityFreeUltimate Guide to LinkedIn for Business
An e-book hosted on the publishing platform Issuu covering how to use LinkedIn for business, including profile setup, company pages, networking, and content strategy for reaching customers. Shared by an individual Issuu account; the original publisher is not stated on the page.
Guide / TutorialFreeAI Is Making Everyone's Ideas the Same
October 2026 Psychology Today post in "The Psychology of Creativity" blog on how AI tools push creative output toward similar results, with suggestions for producing work that stands apart.
ArticleFree9 Things I Would Do to Land a Role at a Hot Startup
Newsletter post from next play listing nine concrete, same-day actions job seekers can take to stand out when applying to high-growth AI and tech startups, including outreach and portfolio tactics.
NewsletterFreeA Career Cold Start Algorithm
Essay by Meta CTO Andrew "Boz" Bosworth describing a step-by-step method for ramping up quickly on a new team: structured 30-minute listening sessions, mapping challenges, and building a network of contacts from scratch.
ArticleFreePayPal Mafia's Influence in Trump's Second Administration
Explainer on the "PayPal Mafia" — the former PayPal founders and managers, including Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and David Sacks, who went on to start or back companies such as Tesla, LinkedIn, YouTube, SpaceX and Palantir. The article traces the term to Fortune's 2007 cover story and PayPal's $1.5 billion sale to eBay in 2002, then describes the group's influence in the Trump administration — including the Department of Government Efficiency and the cryptocurrency and AI czar role — and its push for lighter tech regulation and pro-crypto policy.
ArticleFreeMillennials and Gen Z Are Landing Fast-Growing, High-Paying AI Jobs (CNBC)
CNBC's August 18, 2026 coverage of LinkedIn's AI Talent Divide study, with comments from LinkedIn economist Kory Kantenga. It reports Gen Z makes up more than two-thirds of hires for forward deployed engineer and AI engineer roles (median pay $199,000 and $166,000), millennials 60% of head-of-AI hires, and women 26% of new AI hires, and closes with his advice on computer science degrees, data experience and side projects.
ArticleFree5 Keys to Working with a Recruiter
Advice on building a productive relationship with a recruiter: how to communicate your goals, stay responsive, keep your resume current, and treat the recruiter as a long-term contact rather than a one-time transaction.
articleFreeAndrew Yeung's Newsletter
Free Substack newsletter from Andrew Yeung on people, events and trends in tech and business, with tens of thousands of subscribers.
NewsletterFreeLearning FAQ: LinkedIn Learning for Library Patrons
LinkedIn help page on getting LinkedIn Learning through your public library card.
GuideFreeLinkedIn Expands Verification Features
LinkedIn's announcement that members can verify the experience of people they worked or studied with, and companies get more control over who claims to work there.
ArticleFreeThe Profiler — The Cases
A one-person investigation unit that documents fake job listings, cloned company pages and hijacked LinkedIn profiles, then gets them taken down. The case files show exactly how each scam was built: duplicate listings posted under a real employer's name and logo across several states, applicants routed off LinkedIn to a lookalike careers site, and a resume drop at a domain with no connection to the company. The site claims 58,559 fake jobs and 7,000+ fake profiles removed from LinkedIn.
DirectoryFreeLet's Create Careers (Entry Point)
A newsletter for university students and early-career professionals on building a career deliberately: networking with low effort, building a portfolio when you are not an artist, reputation-building as a young professional, early-career growth rules, job hunting after graduation, and working in and around AI. Launched in early 2026. Every issue in the recent archive is free to everyone, and the whole archive is open.
NewsletterFreeRewriting the Code
A free community of 50,000+ women from university through early career in tech. Membership gives you a peer network, mentorship, events, and access to partner companies that recruit from the community. Open to everyone, centered on women in tech.
CommunityFreeThe Debug Table
A small, recurring in-person meetup for developers, tinkerers, and anyone building something technical — AI, cybersecurity, full-stack development, Linux/macOS, shell scripting, Git, and more.
CommunityFreeAI for Good Regional Youth Network
The UN ITU's AI for Good programme runs regional youth networks that connect students and early-career people building AI projects for social impact, with local chapters and events.
CommunityFreeFirst-Gens in Tech
HubSpot program with live sessions, workshops and networking designed to help first-generation professionals break barriers entering the tech industry.
ProgramFreeLinkedIn's Original Pitch to Greylock
The actual 2004 pitch deck Reid Hoffman used to raise LinkedIn's Series B, with his annotations explaining each slide.
DocumentFreeReid Hoffman
Site of LinkedIn's co-founder: essays, podcasts and books on starting companies, careers and AI.
Person to FollowFreeGo To Millions Membership
A free membership community for ecommerce and retention marketers — peer introductions, what is working now, and access to the wider Go To Millions network by application.
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