Dear LinkedIn: Stop planning my future without me.

Here's why my 'inexperience' is to your advantage:

People assume grey hair means someone always knows better. When you ignore me because I'm "too young," you miss out on new ideas that could solve your same old problems.

Honestly, it's more than missing out on good ideas. It's about missing big changes in how our world works.

The Corporate Suicide Mission

Here's the problem: Companies are making 10-year strategies without input from the generation that will execute them. Let me say it clearly: you're planning my future without asking what I think. That doesn't make sense, does it?

I've never known a world without smartphones, social media, or instant global connection. What looks like inexperience to you is actually a fundamentally different operating system.

Look what happened to Blockbuster. Look at BlackBerry. They missed huge changes because they only listened to people who thought exactly like them.

What we really want

Older perspectives are very important, absolutely. I am not asking to take control. I just want a seat at the table where my future is being discussed.

I really want to learn from you. But I also want you to listen to me.

When you mix your experience with fresh ideas from our generation, that's when amazing things happen.

What you lose by not listening

When you ignore our voices, here's what you miss:

  1. Real-time cultural awareness - We see shifts before they show up in reports

  2. Instinctive tech insight - We don’t just use tools, we live in them

  3. Untapped creativity - We know what you might not

  4. What actually resonates - We know what our generation actually believes in

What happens when you listen

Companies that succeed tomorrow will listen to their youngest voices today.

They know that true innovation comes from combining older experience with younger thinking, not by ignoring either.

And when that happens? Magic.

Key Takeaway

Your future depends on young voices like mine. Are you ready to listen?

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