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The 25 most-shared posts about Career on X, and what they have in common
167 posts about Career in the library, 881.1K likes between them. The 25 that travelled furthest, how they open, and what the analysis says they share.
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There are 167 posts about Career in the library, with 881,126 likes between them. These are the 25 that travelled furthest. The list is the easy part; what they have in common is the reason to read it.
The 25
- @elonmusk — “Coming shortly, 𝕏 will publish everything demanded by @Alexandre and how those requests violate Brazilian law.” — 366,511 likes · open
- @nicksortor — “🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: Disney’s ABC is PULLING Jimmy Kimmel off-air nationwide effectively IMMEDIATELY and indefinitely following his remarks a…” — 80,532 likes · open
- @garrytan — “My best career advice:” — 45,563 likes · open
- @SenMarkKelly — “The Signal incident is what happens when you have the most unqualified Secretary of Defense we've ever seen.” — 35,954 likes · open
- @hellojayblack — “Melania, the documentary no human wants to see, has a budget of $40 million, $28 million of which is “licensing fees” paid to the Trumps.” — 31,396 likes · open
- @ElieNYC — “I owe the television part of my career to Joy Reid, as do so many other Black voices y'all never would have heard of if not for her.” — 20,896 likes · open
- @Dansgaming — “My theory is that Phil and Sarah did not want to shove AI into everything at XBOX so they were forced to retire and resign.” — 19,150 likes · open
- @LukeStephensTV — “Soooo two PlayStation execs greenlight a $200,000,000 project that was doomed to fail and, when it does, one of them retires and the other…” — 18,477 likes · open
- @AdamSinger — “Remote work firm NVIDIA now 3rd largest company globally by market cap (worth >$2.3 trillion) powering the future of computing, AI, gaming,…” — 17,101 likes · open
- @ryangrim — “Reminder that Bari Weiss has never been a journalist ever — she has spent her short career on the opinion side only, and before that was a…” — 12,378 likes · open
- @robsmithonline — “Generally when Pete Hegseth was helping book me on Fox segments, counseling me on career moves, or making crucial introductions for me in t…” — 9,163 likes · open
- @VadimYuryev — “Pay him whatever he wants. Double his salary. Triple it.” — 9,052 likes · open
- @SahilBloom — “In his final Amazon shareholder letter, Jeff Bezos shared a powerful mental model on maintaining your distinctiveness.” — 8,601 likes · open
- @naval — “In physical domains (diet, workouts), consistency is king.” — 8,423 likes · open
- @claudeai — “Claude now has one memory across chat and Claude Cowork, and you decide what's in it.” — 8,294 likes · open
- @geoffkeighley — “What I hope isn’t lost in today’s news about Xbox is Phil Spencer’s incredible career in gaming.” — 7,888 likes · open
- @aquaismissing — ““… it is important to note that Valve’s promotion of games that glorify violence and guns helps fuel the dangerous epidemic of gun violence…” — 7,119 likes · open
- @shadcn — “I was taught, early in my career, to be cautious with criticism. Someone worked really hard on the thing you’re criticizing.” — 7,082 likes · open
- @sama — “More than 1 million people downloaded Codex App in the first week.” — 7,014 likes · open
- @MikaelThalen — “Filed a FOIA request with U.S. Strategic Command to see if I could learn anything about their gibberish tweet yesterday.” — 6,741 likes · open
- @paulg — “One of the biggest things lost in remote work is chance meetings. These are very important, but hard to quantify. If you measure productivi…” — 6,646 likes · open
- @eriktorenberg — “There should be something like a Wikipedia for careers:” — 6,236 likes · open
- @peer_rich — “governments need to start gamifying paying taxes” — 5,954 likes · open
- @JamesClear — “The 4 qualities of a great career:” — 5,465 likes · open
- @AlexYablon — “Sorry for earnest posting but I find Olivia Nuzzi’s return nauseating. A gossipmonger with no ethical compass does not deserve a book deal…” — 4,905 likes · open
25 different accounts, no one of them more than twice. This is a subject people write about, not a subject one person owns.
What they have in common
24 of the 25 open with an observation. The mechanism the analysis names most often is specificity — exact numbers, named tools, precise dates — details that make a claim feel observed rather than asserted — in 3 of them. 6 of the 25 put a figure in the first line. The median post is 260 characters long — a single post, not a thread.
Three to study
@elonmusk — 366,511 likes
Coming shortly, 𝕏 will publish everything demanded by @Alexandre and how those requests violate Brazilian law.
- Follows a clear Hook → Context → Landing shape, so the reader always knows where they are.
- Ends on a short line that is easy to quote and repeat.
- Short enough to read in full without expanding, which removes a step before the point lands.
@nicksortor — 80,532 likes
🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: Disney’s ABC is PULLING Jimmy Kimmel off-air nationwide effectively IMMEDIATELY and indefinitely following his remarks about Charlie Kirk’s kiIIing, per WSJ
- Follows a clear Hook → Context → Landing shape, so the reader always knows where they are.
- Ends on a short line that is easy to quote and repeat.
- Short enough to read in full without expanding, which removes a step before the point lands.
@garrytan — 45,563 likes
My best career advice:
- Opens with a short, self-contained line that is easy to take in at a glance.
- The opening line stands alone, so it reads completely before the post is expanded.
- Short enough to read in full without expanding, which removes a step before the point lands.
How to write one
- Preserve the Hook → Context → Landing structure and the plain observation opening. Replace the subject matter entirely with the writer’s own product, story and numbers.
- Preserve the Hook → Context → Landing structure and the plain observation opening. Replace the subject matter entirely with the writer’s own product, story and numbers.
- Keep the subject and change everything else: the facts, the figures and the voice have to be yours. What transfers is where the hook lands and how the second line earns it.
Filter the library to Career, ordered by likes to read the rest, or remix the top three with your own product as the subject.