LinkedIn Post Rewrite
Workflow
Rewrite for LinkedIn:
- [ ] Step 1: Load spine + chosen hook + voice-profile + audience-notes
- [ ] Step 2: Hook ≤210 chars (first 1-2 lines; must survive the "...see more" fold)
- [ ] Step 3: Line break, then one-sentence pivot paragraph
- [ ] Step 4: Body — 4-7 short paragraphs of 2-3 lines each (white space is structural)
- [ ] Step 5: Optional list block only if essay's spine is genuinely enumerable
- [ ] Step 6: Practitioner-takeaway closer (NOT bolded maxim — bold doesn't render well on LinkedIn)
- [ ] Step 7: Link line: `Full essay: {substack-url}`
- [ ] Step 8: 0-2 niche hashtags on final line (prefer 0-1)
- [ ] Step 9: Cap at 2500 chars total
Voice shift for LinkedIn
LinkedIn reads "practitioner sharing learnings," not "writer thinking aloud." Slight voice shift allowed:
- Essay: "I do not know whether this generalizes." → LinkedIn: "I'm still figuring out if this generalizes." (same hedge, practitioner-flavored)
- Essay: "I shipped a demo in a weekend." → LinkedIn: "A team I worked with shipped a demo in a weekend." (slight depersonalization okay; full pronoun stripping not)
- Essay: Confessional opener. → LinkedIn: Confession OK but can lean "here's what broke" rather than "I was wrong."
Output format
---
source_post: {slug}.md
platform: linkedin
target_length: 900-2500 chars
actual_length: {N}
length_mode: short | long
hook_chars: {N}
hashtags: 0-2
section: {section-slug}
---
{hook — first 1-2 lines, ≤210 chars total}
{one-sentence pivot paragraph}
{body — 4-7 short paragraphs, 2-3 lines each}
{optional list block only if genuinely enumerable}
{practitioner takeaway — not bolded}
Full essay: {substack-url}
{#NicheHashtag1 #NicheHashtag2} ← 0-2 only
Guardrails
- First 210 chars MUST fit the fold. Count and report in frontmatter.
- ≤2500 chars total. LinkedIn caps at 3000 but dwell data drops above 2500.
- 0-2 hashtags; prefer 0-1. Niche tags only (
#MultiAgentSystems,#LLMEngineering). Never generic (#AI,#tech,#innovation,#thoughts,#leadership). - No bolded maxim closer — bold renders as markdown leak on LinkedIn. Use plain-text practitioner takeaway instead.
- Paragraphs 2-3 lines max. White space is structural.
- Use list block only if the essay's spine is genuinely enumerable. Never shoehorn.
- Preserve paper attributions (Author, Institution, Year).
- No emoji. No exclamation points. No custom CTA.