If you often find yourself faced with seemingly endless personal essays disguised as LinkedIn posts, you’re not alone. Fortunately, a new Chrome extension is here to painlessly summarize these endless texts with a touch of humor.
Called “LinkedIn TLDR”, a new extension uses artificial intelligence to automatically summarize overly verbose LinkedIn messages in one or two sentences, with a simple click. But what makes it particularly entertaining, it’s its default mode that takes these summaries and injects them with a healthy dose of satirical humor.
The work of designer Soren Iverson, LinkedIn TLDR was first conceived as a joke aimed at mocking the often overly philosophical messages that litter the professional networking site’s news feeds. However, the idea evolved into a real extension.
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No more lengthy publications on LinkedIn with this extension
The result is an extension that can take even the longest, most rambling LinkedIn post and distill it into a brutal, hilarious summary. In a demonstration, Iverson shows how LinkedIn TLDR took an infamous post about a person proposing to their partner under the guise of a “sales lesson” and summarized it as follows: “ A man proposed to his girlfriend. 4,000 words on closing a sale. Congratulations ? “.
While Roast mode can provide funny summaries, there is also a Serious Mode option that provides a more direct AI-powered summary if you prefer. But if we trust the examples, the “roast” mode is undoubtedly the most entertaining option.
Of course, while being extremely funny, the extension is also legitimately useful for quickly digesting the key points of long essays when pressed for time. It seems perfectly suited to browsing your LinkedIn feed during work breaks without getting lost in endless, rambling anecdotes. The free extension is available now from the Chrome Web Store, and only requires permission to view and edit content from LinkedIn itself. We obviously advise you to try it on your colleagues’ publications.