Richard van der Blom's Recent LinkedIn Posts

I can’t, not today. The platform I value so much has turned into an echo chamber of experts asking me to comment to get a copied-paste clickbait document. Where people who discovered LinkedIn last year are ruining the credibility by selling stolen inspiration. Not this Monday LinkedIn can I have the good old you…

Today marks one year since I lost my mom. August 31st, 2025 a date I will never look at the same way again. And here’s something I have not really said out loud, on that day I did not just lose my mom, I lost both my parents. My dad has dementia, and my mom was the one holding him together. She was the reason he…

My reach dropped. Then I found out why. It wasn't the ads. It wasn't the pods. It was something most people haven't even heard of yet — and once I understood it, my reach went up 30% again. The reason? LinkedIn quietly rebuilt how it decides who gets seen. From the ground up. And the element sitting at the cent…

I can’t, not today. The platform I value so much has turned into an echo chamber of experts asking me to comment to get a copied-paste clickbait document. Where people who discovered LinkedIn last year are ruining the credibility by selling stolen inspiration. Not this Monday LinkedIn can I have the good old you…

I've spent 3 weeks buried in algorithm data and I'm not sure I like what I found. I like number 1, but 3 doesn't make sense to me at all. You? 1. AI comments are now punished. Hard.    A comment flagged as AI loses 88% of its reach impact. But here's the real kicker: your next comment, even if it's genuine, starts…

By now everyone knows, LinkedIn launched a "Seems like AI Slop" button. Bold move from the platform whose algorithm has spent two years quietly rewarding low-effort content because it's cheap to produce and easy to push. You didn't only create the slop problem, you helped building the machine that farms it. So…