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THE

REDEMPTION

My Escape
From

Part II

ESCAPING

PART II (Breaking Out)

Dear Fellow Colleague,

If you are reading this, then it means you’ve gotten out or at the very least you've taken some furlough time from LinkedIn Prison to come and find me. After they killed the LinkedIn Business Contact Management App and completely replaced it with a Social Media Platform, I decided I had been there just about long enough.

I’m glad you took the first step of freedom from LinkedIn Prison to come and find me. And if you've come this far, maybe you're willing to come a little further.

If you ever decide to escape from LinkedIn yourself, then good for you! I encourage you to start your own editorial column and/or build your own website. Feel free to contact me if you need help escaping yourself. You know where to find me. I could use a good hand to help me get my new project on wheels. I'll keep an eye out for you and the chessboard ready.

Remember . . . Hope is a good thing, perhaps the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. I will be hoping that this letter finds you and finds you well.

Your Friend,

Richard

(Former Inmate of LinkedIn Prison)

If you haven’t guessed it by now, I’ve never been one to follow the crowd. You’ve probably heard of the expression "march to the beat of your own drum." This expression traces to a passage in Henry David Thoreau's 1854 work, Walden: "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." The phrase is used to describe someone who does things their own way, regardless of societal norms or expectations. That’s me. I march to the beat of my own drum. This brings me to another point.

You’ll find that I am well-versed in the Classics of Great Literature. So please forgive me if I occasionally pepper my writing with references from some of those great literary works of the past which are authored by more well-known writers such as William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens (my wife's personal favorite), Jane Austen, Henry David Thoreau, etc.