When someone's sudden burst of skill acquisition raises eyebrows — like, why are you suddenly an expert in exactly the thing that conveniently helps your case, your pitch, or your promotion bid? A sus upskill feels less like genuine learning and more like strategic credential collecting for optics. The timing is too perfect, the new skill too targeted. It's not that they learned it — it's that they learned it right now, right before that evaluation, and everyone clocked it.
He added 'AI strategy' to his LinkedIn literally three days before the restructure announcement — that's a sus upskill if I've ever seen one.
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