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If it's October it must be #SOSUEUROPE time On my way to Amsterdam, via trains, Plane, tram!
John Rose 🇬🇧🇨🇦 retweeted
Dear @LinkedIn, can you remind us what networking is for?
You cap 1st-degree connections at 30,000. Fine, a ceiling is a ceiling.
The old escape hatch was ugly but human: Manage invitations, find the reply button, answer the person without marrying their network. Not “connect with everyone,” just respond. The thing our parents called manners. Mine did, anyway.
A lot of people do not want 30,000 strangers in their house.
But they still want to say: yes, I saw your note; no, I don’t have an opening; here is one useful job-search tip; yes, your profile is a fit for our role - let’s have a chat.
Since that reply path disappeared, I have been “ignoring” hundreds of people.
Not because I am cold, but because the product turned courtesy into a dead end.
Some of those messages were a job question, a search stuck in place, or a 30-second note that could have actually helped.
So I will ask it plainly: What is the point of a networking site if you cannot answer a person who reached out?
Bring the reply-without-accepting option back.
Until then, this place feels less like a professional network and more like a group project of X clickbait, TikTok clips, and Instagram filters.
We did not come here to go viral. We came here to talk to each other.
Warmly,
Someone who still thinks a reply is part of the job, and basic manners.
P.S. If the feature is hiding in a menu I have not found, consider this a very public cry for a tooltip.
John Rose 🇬🇧🇨🇦 retweeted
Ageism was always wrong. AI is making it even clearer why. AI helps you write, research, analyze, and build faster.
But it cannot give you 20 years of pattern recognition.
It cannot replace years of dealing with customers, bad hires, failed projects, difficult managers, market crashes, and decisions that looked brilliant but failed in reality.
And it cannot instantly give you a network built over decades.
The advantage today is not being young enough to learn AI.
It is being willing to learn AI.
Someone over 50 with deep experience, a strong network, and the ability to use AI effectively can be incredibly dangerous competition.
Experience + network + AI is a multiplier.
Rejecting someone because they are “too old” or “overqualified” while AI is amplifying decades of experience?
That is a terrible way to make a hiring decision.
John Rose 🇬🇧🇨🇦 retweeted
50 websites you’ll wish you knew sooner 👀
1. futuretools.io — Discover useful AI tools
2. theresanaiforthat.com — Find AI tools for almost anything
3. aitools.fyi — Explore AI tools & apps
4. huggingface.co/spaces — Try community-built AI demos
5. replicate.com — Run AI models online
6. runwayml.com — AI video & creative tools
7. leonardo.ai — AI image generation
8. ideogram.ai — Create images with strong text rendering
9. suno.com — Generate AI music
10. elevenlabs.io — AI voice generation
11. gamma.app — Create presentations with AI
12. napkin.ai — Turn ideas into visual diagrams
13. tldraw.com — Collaborative online whiteboard
14. excalidraw.com — Simple hand-drawn style diagrams
15. drawio.com — Create diagrams & flowcharts
16. penpot.app — Open-source design platform
17. coolors.co — Generate color palettes
18. fontjoy.com — Find font combinations
19. myfonts.com/WhatTheFont — Identify fonts from images
20. favicon.io — Create favicons quickly
21. qr-code-generator.com — Create QR codes
22. compressjpeg.com — Compress JPEG images
23. tinypng.com — Compress PNG & WebP images
24. convertio.co — Convert files between formats
25. cloudconvert.com — Convert almost any file
26. iloveimg.com — Edit & optimize images
27. vectr.com — Create vector graphics online
28. unsplash.com — Free high-quality photography
29. pexels.com — Free stock photos & videos
30. pixabay.com — Free images, videos & illustrations
31. mixkit.co — Free stock videos, music & templates
32. coverr.co — Free stock videos for creative projects
33. humaaans.com — Build customizable human illustrations
34. undraw.co — Free customizable illustrations
35. storyset.com — Animated illustrations for projects
36. sitemap.org — Learn how sitemaps work
37. regexr.com — Build & test regular expressions
38. jsonformatter.org — Format & validate JSON
39. jwt.io — Decode and inspect JWT tokens
40. postman.com — Test & explore APIs
41. reqbin.com — Send HTTP requests online
42. carbon.now.sh — Create beautiful code screenshots
43. ray.so — Turn code into beautiful images
44. bundlephobia.com — Check JavaScript package sizes
45. roadmap.sh — Developer roadmaps & learning paths
46. roadmap.sh/r — Explore career roadmaps
47. learn-anything.xyz — Discover visual learning paths
48. learnxinyminutes.com — Learn programming concepts quickly
49. overapi.com — Cheat sheets for developers
50. stowaway.live/?f=VRP92H6NV98… — Explore aircraft & satellites flying over you in real time
The internet isn’t just social media.
There are thousands of tools quietly making work, learning, creativity and everyday life more interesting.
🔖 Bookmark this. You’ll thank yourself later.
Follow @monicaa_AI for more useful websites & AI tools.
John Rose 🇬🇧🇨🇦 retweeted
50 websites that can turn a “quick visit” into hours of exploring 🌍
1. zoom.earth — Live satellite views
2. flightradar24.com — Track planes worldwide
3. marinetraffic.com — Track ships in real time
4. windy.com — Live weather & storms
5. lightningmaps.org — Live lightning strikes
6. earthquake.usgs.gov — Recent earthquakes
7. submarinecablemap.com @sauda_coder — Explore internet cables
8. globalforestwatch.org — Monitor global forests
9. worldometers.info — Live world statistics
10. internetlivestats.com — Live internet stats
11. thetruesize.com — Compare country sizes
12. oldmapsonline.org — Explore historical maps
13. davidrumsey.com — Historical map archive
14. openstreetmap.org — Community-built world map
15. window-swap.com — Windows around the world
16. virtualvacation.us — Virtual city walks
17. mapcrunch.com — Random places worldwide
18. atlasobscura.com — Strange places worldwide
19. neal.fun — Fun interactive experiments
20. htwins.net/scale2 — Atom to universe
21. eyes.nasa.gov — Explore space in 3D
22. stellarium-web.org — Interactive sky map
23. apod.nasa.gov — NASA’s daily space image
24. images.nasa.gov — NASA image archive
25. pudding.cool — Interactive data stories
26. ourworldindata.org — Global data & insights
27. gapminder.org — Understand global trends
28. informationisbeautiful.net — Data visualizations
29. data.worldbank.org — World Bank data
30. data.tuik.gov.tr — Turkey’s official statistics
31. archive.org — Massive digital archive
32. gutenberg.org — Free classic books
33. openlibrary.org — Explore millions of books
34. loc.gov — Library of Congress archive
35. europeana.eu — Europe’s cultural archive
36. dp.la — America’s digital library
37. artsandculture.google.com — Virtual museums
38. rijksmuseum.nl @sauda_coder High-res artworks
39. wikiart.org — Online art collection
40. publicdomainreview.org — Historical treasures
41. openculture.com — Free culture & education
42. metmuseum.org — Explore the Met collection
43. musicmap.info — Explore music genres
44. radiooooo.com — Music by country & decade
45. listen.hatnote.com — Wikipedia edits as audio
46. wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:R… — Random knowledge
47. timeanddate.com — Time & astronomy tools
48. sciencedaily.com — Latest science news
49. arxiv.org — Free research papers
50. observablehq.com — Interactive data visualizations
The internet is much bigger than your usual feed.
🔖 Bookmark this for later.
Follow @sauda_coder for more useful websites & AI tools. 🚀
Dear @Google please oh please correct this map. It is Lake Ontario. Not Lake Ontario (Lake America) #stopfakenews maps.app.goo.gl/BXTn44xUMmrG…
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Kevin Keegan has died aged 75 R.I.P. news.sky.com/story/kevin-kee…
John Rose 🇬🇧🇨🇦 retweeted
Recruiting Brainfood - Issue 501
recruitingbrainfood.substack…
Airbnb AI for HR playbook, Google's own recommendations for GEO, Hangzhou People's Court ruling against AI driven layoffs, Meta planned mega layoff round and the great Irony of Automation...
John Rose 🇬🇧🇨🇦 retweeted
Can you really spot an AI-generated resume? I do not think so.
Every day, I see people claiming they can tell AI-written resumes from miles away.
I'm skeptical. But I'd love to be proven wrong.
So I built a small test.
8 versions of my own resume. Your job is to figure out which one was written by AI and which one was written by a human, aka me.
👉 jantegze.com/resumetest/
I'll collect the results and share them in a week or two.
The more people who take the test, the better the data.
Share it with your network, colleagues, friends, anyone who thinks they can tell the difference.
Let's find out if the confidence matches the skill. 🙂
John Rose 🇬🇧🇨🇦 retweeted
Recruiting Brainfood - Issue 500
recruitingbrainfood.substack…
Amazon Connect Talent, Workday's Last Workday, AI job apocalypse is just bunk(?), companies use interview process as market intelligence...just one of several incredible essays in this week's issue..
John Rose 🇬🇧🇨🇦 retweeted
Quick question: What’s one LinkedIn feature you wish more people actually knew about?
These 4 powerful but underrated LinkedIn features are ones most people completely overlook.
They can help you grow your audience even with the connection limit, make warm introductions, explain career gaps professionally, and start meaningful conversations at the perfect time.
Save it. Use it. And tag a friend who needs to see this!
If you found this valuable, share it so others can benefit too 👇
🤖 Made with AI
John Rose 🇬🇧🇨🇦 retweeted
Recruiting Brainfood - Issue 495
recruitingbrainfood.substack…
Deloitte Human Capital Trends 2026, LinkedIn tracking your Chrome extensions, Jack Dorsey takes on bullshit jobs and the whole idea of organisational hierarchy, some cool GEO stuff on EB and more..
John Rose 🇬🇧🇨🇦 retweeted
Your Database is a Goldmine, Not a Graveyard: Why Agency Recruiters are Losing the Sourcing War ivanstojanovic.substack.com/…
Dear @FedEx please oh please can you sort out your delivery depot in Bradford, UK. Twice had packages delayed due to Delivery Exception and Wrong address, to be advised rescheduled for following Monday, then man in white van delivers 1st thing Saturday morning
John Rose 🇬🇧🇨🇦 retweeted
Why Every Job Seeker Needs an Accountability Group (If You Want Faster Results)
Featuring @jantegze @espirian @davidfano @HerminiaIbarra and more! career-essentials.beehiiv.co…
John Rose 🇬🇧🇨🇦 retweeted
⚠️ Researchers have found 7 new ways to hack ChatGPT (GPT-4o and GPT-5), including zero-click attacks that can steal chat history and even poison your AI's memory.
OpenAI fixed some of them... but not all of them.
Details here → thehackernews.com/2025/11/re…
