I do wonder the category of “builder” is real as opposed to a self-congratulatory identity. Yes people build, but it’s a messy and loose group not a tight and coherent identity group. It’s like the difference between people who work in science vs people who post “I fucking love science” slogans

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For this reason I greatly prefer “developers” or “entrepreneurs”. Both of these have better definitions.

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it's funny I hate the E word because it was LinkedInified which is why I switched to using builder.

The only problem is externality pricing.

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I didn’t like it because so many people use it as a status flex, at least “builder” seems low status and is descriptive

How do you mean “part of your identity”?

The problem isn’t the word, it’s the meaning - just embrace “entrepreneur” which at least is less pretentious.  The things you don’t like about the term are part of your identity whether you want them to be or not so just own it

Yeah, I see what you mean, on LinkedIn I've 100% tuned that word out too.