Post by Justin Welsh

A CEO of an $8B company called remote work "white collar fraud" this week. 5.3 million people saw it on their X timeline. Two camps formed instantly and argued for days over the take. One side said he's rich, so he must be right. Rich people are right, right? The other said he's just bad at working from home. A skills problem. Both missed what was actually happening. Nobody stopped to ask why a nuanced workplace debate turned into a clickbait-like argument. I'll tell you why, because I've watched it warp the decisions of smart people I know. And I've fallen for it myself more than I'd like to admit. The aggressive take that goes viral is almost always missing the one piece of information that would actually help you. And the people stripping it out know exactly what they're doing. They're marketers, after all. I wrote about the filter I now run on every loud, certain opinion I see online. And the thing these posts always conveniently leave out. It might change how you read your entire LinkedIn or X feed. Read it below, then watch how fast you start spotting it. 👇