Comment by jameshart

This is one of those sampling bias/availability heuristic problems.

Of course the ‘nerds’ you hear about and see online are extroverted self-promoters. Of course the most visible people in the internal culture of large organizations are the ones who do more talking than doing.

Those are the people who are doing all the talking.

It is a massive over sampling problem that leads you to think, by looking at eg LinkedIn, ‘why is everyone on here writing engagement-bait algorithm-maxing posts?’

Everyone is not; The content you see is by definition the content that maxed its algorithmic exposure.