"When a company that raised $40 billion last year and is now valued at $500 billion suddenly announces they’re “exploring” ads, that’s not innovation - that’s desperation wearing a press release."

LinkedIn Content Strategy & Writing Style
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David ten Have positions himself as a pragmatic, battle-hardened technologist who prioritizes the ethics of "shipping" over the hollow hype of Silicon Valley. His content strategy centers on a cynical deconstruction of AI leadership, where he uses his background in building machine learning tools to expose the gap between corporate valuation and actual utility. He is notable for his refusal to engage in tech-optimist tropes, instead offering a sharp-tongued critique of "misanthropic" AI development and regulatory capture. By blending deep technical literacy with moral urgency, David creates an intersection where product engineering meets social accountability, calling out industry giants for prioritizing desperation-led innovation over human safety.
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"When a company that raised $40 billion last year and is now valued at $500 billion suddenly announces they’re “exploring” ads, that’s not innovation - that’s desperation wearing a press release."
This reminds me of MS with XML... "if it's not working, use more of it"
"Musk can claim that Optimus will justify Tesla’s insane valuation and become the most valuable product in the world all he wants. But when the guy who was supposed to make that happen leaves to work…
When I got into tech we had "Think Different". Now we've got "I couldn't imagine raising a kid without ChatGPT" and "what happens when we realize we were just stochastic parrots all along?" The AI lea…
"97% of respondents said that AI tools shouldn’t be allowed to generate sexually explicit content of children" Please, by all means, report this post again... Grok generates CSAM and it does it at an…
Y'all shot for regulatory capture by telling us ghost stories (coz you really had no moat), shitting the nest for all of us and *now* you're "It's not useful". Genuine thanks to Jensen for calling it…
7.9 posts/week
Posts / Week
1 days
Days Between Posts
1
Total Posts Analyzed
HIGH
Posting Frequency
6.625%
Avg Engagement Rate
STABLE
Performance Trend
170
Avg Length (Words)
MEDIUM
Depth Level
ADVANCED
Expertise Level
0.78/10
Uniqueness Score
YES
Question Usage
0%
Response Rate
Writing style breakdown
The author’s voice is terse, high-signal, and culturally literate, with a strong preference for compression over exposition. The default posture is critical and diagnostic: they look at a statement, product move, or industry narrative and then translate it into a blunt underlying motive (for example, reframing “exploring ads” as “desperation wearing a press release.”). The style is professional in knowledge base (tech, funding, valuation, regulation, AI/ML), but conversational in delivery: contractions are common (“wouldn’t,” “they’re,” “we’ve got”), slang appears when it sharpens the jab (“Y’all,” “coz,” “moat”), and profanity is used strategically rather than constantly (“shitting the nest”).
Energy is medium-high: not breathless motivational hype, but quick acceleration into a verdict. The tone leans sardonic and skeptical, with occasional moral gravity (notably around child safety). The author switches cleanly between humor and severity without changing the underlying cadence: a snarky one-liner can sit right next to a serious boundary statement.
Quotation-as-targeting: the author frequently embeds short quoted phrases to mock, distance, or highlight corporate/ideological language (examples: “exploring” ads; “Think Different”; “I couldn’t imagine raising a kid without ChatGPT”; “It’s not useful”.)
The “translation move”: corporate euphemism is translated into a sharper noun (“innovation” becomes “desperation”; a “press release” becomes a costume).
Punchline-by-contrast: the author sets up a scale or expectation (money raised, valuation, “DMV vision test”) and then snaps to a deflating comparison.
Moral line in the sand when needed: the author will explicitly state acceptability boundaries (“It is not acceptable to generate sexualized images of children.”)
Reader address varies. Much of it is third-person commentary (“When a company… announces…”) or collective “we” to mark a generational shift (“When I got into tech we had…”). Direct second-person appears mainly as accusation/diagnosis aimed at an implied group (“Y’all shot for regulatory capture…”). Commands are rare; the author prefers declarative judgments and rhetorical framing over “do this” imperatives.
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