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What's going viral about careers and work on X
Of the 29 career posts that went viral on X in the week of October 26 to November 1, 2026 and passed Postel's content check, 17% led with a number and 21% had a photo or video. The median one was 258 characters long, and the biggest, by @felixrieseberg, got 57 times its creator's usual views.
PostelUpdated Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026 · 29 viral posts · 23 creators · how we count
The top 10
@felixrieseberg · 112.2K followers
57×their usual
The coding interview is dead, at least for my team at Anthropic. I've seen enough to know that it no longer provides signal. I removed it from loops this month. I have a spicy, optimistic take - I think there's an opportunity for junior engineers:
2.7M views · Oct 27 · Takes a side
@ivanburazin · 22K followers
21.6×their usual
PSA: if the job description says on-site SF and not on-site/remote or hybrid, and you still don't want to move, please don’t send the message asking if it's possible to make an exception for you. Especially when I'm hearing from you for the first time. I moved my family from…
68.6K views · Oct 31
@SebastianRoehl · 25.7K followers
20.8×their usual
Still not happy with my productivity setup. Notes, AI agents, todos and daily planning, journaling ... all live in different places. What are you using, please share your setup?
59K views · Oct 26 · Asks a question
@JohnLeFevre · 201.3K followers
18.6×their usual
Walter Isaacson asks Peter Thiel what humans can uniquely do in the AI era. Thiel: "We're very relational… these relational dimensions will become more important." When knowledge is worth $0, the only career skills that matter: - networking / social calibration - persuasion…
566.7K views · Oct 27 · Video · A list
@yunta_tsai · 155K followers
14×their usual
If you put your heart into eval, training is easy. If you don’t have one, training is aimless.
142.5K views · Oct 30
@thewinningdiff1 · 102.3K followers
9.2×their usual
"The standard creates the culture." @ChristianYelich When coaches enforce it, it's a rule. When players own it, it's a standard. When everyone lives it, it's a culture. Culture isn't built by what you preach. It's built by what you practice.
56.9K views · Oct 29 · Video
@IT_unhinged · 20.9K followers
9.1×their usual
I discovered a former employee named Gary has been hosting a weekly meeting for the past six years. Gary retired in 2020. His recurring calendar invite never got canceled. Every Tuesday at 2 PM, 23 employees still have a meeting called "Weekly Alignment" on their…
115.7K views · Oct 26 · Starts with I or we · In the moment
@Finaltoucch · 43.6K followers
8.7×their usual
Nigerian freelancers, don’t let anybody gaslight you into believing your location should determine how much you earn. I worked on an AI video generation project alongside other freelancers from the US. We were all paid $250 for every 40-second video we created. We created…
20.5K views · Oct 31
@neet_sol · 55.8K followers
8.3×their usual
“One cigarette shaves 20 minutes off your life” One 9-5 day shaves 8 hours off your life
101.5K views · Oct 30 · Leads with a number
@drgurner · 191.6K followers
7.6×their usual
Every very successful person I work with, has very few hobbies (if any at all). Business is their hobby.
116K views · Oct 27
The openings behind them
How the 29 viral career posts opened. 21% had a photo or video (14% a video), and 3% linked out.
| Opening | Share of viral posts |
|---|---|
| No clear hookthe opening matches none of the other rows | 52%15 posts |
| Leads with a numbera figure, amount or percentage in the opening line““One cigarette shaves 20 minutes off your life”” @neet_sol on X (opens in a new tab) | 17%5 posts |
| Takes a sidethe opening line pushes back: unpopular opinion, stop, nobody, most people, overrated, is dead“The coding interview is dead, at least for my team at Anthropic. I've seen enough to know that it no longer provides signal. I removed it from loops this month.” @felixrieseberg on X (opens in a new tab) | 10%3 posts |
| Asks a questionthe opening line asks a question“Still not happy with my productivity setup. Notes, AI agents, todos and daily planning, journaling ... all live in different places. What are you using, please share your setup?” @SebastianRoehl on X (opens in a new tab) | 7%2 posts |
| Starts with I or wethe opening line starts with I, my, we or our“I discovered a former employee named Gary has been hosting a weekly meeting for the past six years.” @IT_unhinged on X (opens in a new tab) | 7%2 posts |
| A listthree or more lines that start with a number, dash, bullet or arrow | 3%1 post |
| Promises a how or whythe opening line starts with how, why, what or here's | 3%1 post |
How we count
Postel's library follows thousands of individual creators on X: founders, builders, writers and other people posting as themselves. Brands, news and fan accounts, politicians and aggregators are kept out. This page reads their original English posts from Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026, leaving out replies and reposts.
A post counts as viral when it gets at least 3 times its creator's usual views and 10,000 views in all. A creator's usual is the median views of their posts over the 60 days before the period ended, leaving out posts younger than three days. Comparing each post with its own creator means a big account's ordinary post doesn't count, and a small account's unusually big post does.
A model then reads every viral post, sorts it into a topic by what it's about, and leaves out politics, gossip, news about other people, health claims, get-rich pitches, giveaways and anything else this page shouldn't feature. A second, stricter model approves each post before it's shown with its creator's name. The list ranks the approved posts by how far each beat its creator's usual, one post per creator. Openings are sorted by the plain rules in the table.
Every post links to the original on X. Creators: if you'd rather your post weren't on this page, send its link through the contact form and it comes off within a few days.
Other topics
Or see what's going viral on X this week across every topic.
- AI68 viral posts passed our check last week
- Startups and founders23 viral posts passed our check last week
- Software developers30 viral posts passed our check last week
- Marketing and sales15 viral posts passed our check last week
- Design10 viral posts passed our check last week
- Investing10 viral posts passed our check last week
- Content creators7 viral posts passed our check last week
Questions
What career posts are going viral on X right now?
From Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026, 29 career posts from 23 creators in Postel's library went viral (each got at least 3 times its creator's usual views and 10,000 views in all) and passed its content check. The 10 that beat their creator's usual by the most are on this page, with a link to each on X.
What do viral career posts have in common?
Of the 29 career posts that went viral on X in the week of October 26 to November 1, 2026 and passed Postel's content check, 17% led with a number and 21% had a photo or video. The median one was 258 characters long, and the biggest, by @felixrieseberg, got 57 times its creator's usual views.
How does Postel decide a post went viral?
A post counts as viral when it gets at least 3 times its creator's usual views and 10,000 views in all. A creator's usual is the median views of their posts over the 60 days before that week ended (leaving out the last three days). The topic comes from what the post is about, not from who wrote it.
How often is this page updated?
Every Tuesday. It covers the last full week (Monday to Sunday), so a topic has enough posts to show what's working.
I'm on this list. Can I have my post removed?
Yes. Send the post's link through the contact form at postel.app/contact and it comes off this page and every page like it within a few days.