"It also helps that I'm not being sold anything - I feel like everything and everyone is doing that nowadays, and it's exhausting." I build interesting project

"It also helps that I'm not being sold anything - I feel like everything and everyone is doing that nowadays, and it's exhausting." I build interesting projects, and then I reach out to various connections on LinkedIn to show them the neat project. Yes, it is marketing myself, but not really. "Here's a neat thing I built. What neat things are you building?" I preface every outreach with "There's no ulterior motive. I'm not pitching anything. I'm not selling anything." Yes, technically, there is an ulterior motive. If I show you this fascinating geejaw I built, at some point, five years from now, you may need my skillset and think of me. But I'm not trying to sell you on that. Without variance, every inbound message I receive on LinkedIn is someone trying to sell me something.