You don't have to read that twice, but the point has to be made. Well, not the app directly, but all of us who use it, me included.
"Proud to announce...",
"Happy to share...",
"Excited to say...",
and the list goes on, just in this particular order of words. Even failures have begun to wear the robe of achievements.
Don't get me wrong: document your learning journey, write about that failure or win that transformed you. Celebrate the certification you worked for, and even that project that almost made you run mad. These things matter; they are concrete evidence of sleepless nights for some, and of those "how did I even get here" moments for others, like me. Post whatever.
What I'm driving home is don't make everything a performance for 900+ people you've never met.
Yes, you reading.
More importantly, don't compare your Day 1 to someone else's 5-year journey. Age doesn't guarantee anything. Learning doesn't stop either. And you have no idea how much the other person sacrificed for the platform they stand on today.
Use that time differently instead. Discover and build yourself; invest that energy you're using to overthink into building your career and doing the things you love, consistently. Learn that skill. At the end of the day, a moving man will meet his luck.
And?
Post on LinkedIn.
Just don't stay there refreshing the page every 2 minutes. You're performing then. People support genuine, and genuine in this space is building in public; your consistency and curiosity; doing that thing you love and understand. So, every post should come off as proof of who you are and who you're becoming, not a TikTok challenge.
No, you do not need to undersell yourself. Neither do you need to build SpaceX before you're "allowed" to post on LinkedIn. Get acquainted with people in your niche, connect, ask questions. Build at your own pace. I kid you not; you would grow in a way only you can.
Now go back to building whatever it was you were doing. Stop being intimidated by other people's announcements. Block out the noise. Lock in. Document your proof. And really, really own it.