Verified against Claude · 2026-08-03
Decide what belongs in your LinkedIn Featured section, and cut what doesn't
Turn a scattered list of your posts, articles, media, and links into a curated Featured section that argues one specific thing about you to a specific visitor, instead of a junk drawer of everything you've ever published in upload order.
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CANDIDATE ITEMS I COULD FEATURE 3 LinkedIn posts about pricing case studies, one Article on usage-based pricing, a link to a podcast appearance, a slide deck from a webinar WHO IS MOST LIKELY TO LOOK AT MY PROFILE RIGHT NOW Founders considering hiring a pricing consultant, found via referral or a post THE ONE THING I WANT A VISITOR TO WALK AWAY BELIEVING This person has actually diagnosed and fixed real pricing mistakes, not just theorized about them HOW MANY SLOTS I HAVE OR WANT TO USE 4 ANYTHING CURRENTLY FEATURED I SHOULD RECONSIDER An old conference speaker badge and a general "About me" video from 2 years ago WHY THIS SECTION IS THE ONE PART OF A PROFILE YOU FULLY CONTROL The Featured section sits directly under About, above the work-experience timeline, and is the only part of a profile where you — not a chronological feed or an algorithm — choose exactly what a visitor sees first and in what order. Most profiles either leave it empty or fill it with everything available, which does roughly the same job as leaving it empty, because a visitor skims a wall of six unranked items about the same way they skim none. TASK 1. For each item in 3 LinkedIn posts about pricing case studies, one Article on usage-based pricing, a link to a podcast appearance, a slide deck from a webinar, state in one line what specific claim about you it provides evidence for — not a description of what the item is, a description of what it proves. 2. Group items that prove the same claim and pick only the strongest one from each group — redundant proof of the same point wastes a slot that could prove something else entirely. 3. Select and order exactly 4 items so that, read left to right, they build toward This person has actually diagnosed and fixed real pricing mistakes, not just theorized about them rather than presenting a random assortment — order matters because the leftmost items are what a visitor sees without any interaction on most viewports. 4. For each selected item, write the exact title or caption text LinkedIn will display it under — short, specific, never the item's default filename or an untitled link preview. 5. For anything cut, or anything from An old conference speaker badge and a general "About me" video from 2 years ago being removed, state the specific reason — not just "less relevant" but what it fails to prove that a kept item proves better. CONSTRAINT Don't recommend cramming in an item "just to show range" if it doesn't serve This person has actually diagnosed and fixed real pricing mistakes, not just theorized about them — a Featured section proving five unrelated things about you proves none of them convincingly to a visitor who spends ten seconds on it. OUTPUT The final ordered list with captions, then a short "cut and why" list, then one line on whether This person has actually diagnosed and fixed real pricing mistakes, not just theorized about them is actually well-served by what's realistically available in 3 LinkedIn posts about pricing case studies, one Article on usage-based pricing, a link to a podcast appearance, a slide deck from a webinar — flag it if the strongest available items don't actually support the takeaway you said you wanted.
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Why this works
The Featured section is positioned directly below About and above the reverse-chronological work history — it is structurally the one part of a LinkedIn profile under full author control, not fed by an algorithm or forced into date order, which is exactly why an unranked pile of items in it fails: nothing about the section's design does the prioritization for you the way a feed's recency sort would for a post. Requiring a one-line "what claim does this prove" pass before selection targets the actual reason most Featured sections are incoherent: items get added because they exist and felt worth sharing at the time, not because they were chosen against a stated goal. Forcing the claim-first framing surfaces redundant proof — three case studies proving the same "I ship results" point — that a visual skim of titles alone would not reveal, since the titles can look different even when the underlying claim is identical. The order constraint matters because the section renders as a horizontally scrollable row where the first one or two items are visible without any interaction on most viewports. An item buried at slot five is functionally unseen by a large share of visitors, so treating slot order as a real design decision rather than upload order is what actually changes what most visitors take away from the ten seconds they spend on this part of the profile. The instruction to name a specific reason for every cut, rather than a vague "less relevant," forces the curation itself to be defensible — a cut made against a stated claim ("this proves I can speak publicly, which isn't the takeaway we're going for") is a real editorial decision, while a cut made on vibes alone is exactly the kind of judgment call that gets silently reversed the next time someone edits the section and can't remember why an item was removed.
Verified against
Claude Sonnet 5 · 2026-08-03
Gemini Gemini 3 Pro · 2026-08-03
Changelog
- 2026-08-03 — Initial publish for the rewritten linkedin category, verified against Claude (Sonnet 5) and Gemini (Gemini 3 Pro).
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