causal

Language games shaped LinkedIn's design

Later Wittgenstein's insight that we play language games—forming identity and community through how we discourse, the channels we use, and the environments we are in—informed the patterns of communication built into LinkedIn.

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Speaker

Reid Hoffman

Evidence Quote

the way that we form identity and community, both of ourselves and as individuals, is the way that we discourse

Source

Reid HoffmanConversations with Tyler
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:30:30 AM

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