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Fenwick
Company blog · fenwick.media/all-blog-postswritingbusiness
Fenwick is the company blog at fenwick.media, writing about writing and business. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Fenwick's 'Dead Broets Society' post for coining the term 'broetry' for LinkedIn-style writing. Commenters use the term when discussing that writing style.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- /rewild/magazine/dead-broets-society-behind-the-strange-story4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-01-26
What Hacker News says?
"Broetry" See: https://fenwick.media/rewild/magazine/dead-broets-society-be...
Comment linking /rewild/magazine/dead-broets-society-behind-the-strange-story
on “Arguing with Agents”Submitted Ebooks inspired by poetry, philosophy, and mathematics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPlease keep broetry[0] on LinkedIn, let's try to stick to human-like communication here. [0] https://www.fenwick.media/all-blog-posts/mastery/broetry-dea...
Comment linking /all-blog-posts/mastery/broetry-dead-broets-society
on “Reddit and Perplexity got us leads faster than Google ever did”Submitted Four Creative Principles for Writers to Live By as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI once saw this style be called "broetry"[1], and it's unmistakably LinkedIn-voice. I get that it works because feed algorithms/engagement, but never understood why it seems largely confined to LinkedIn and not other social media sites. [1] https://fenwick.media/rewild/magazine/dead-broets-society-be...
Comment linking /rewild/magazine/dead-broets-society-behind-the-strange-story
on “AI changes the economics of software rewrites”Submitted The Invisible Scaffold You Can’t Live Without as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis is such a perfect term for it. Thank you for starting my day with a chuckle. I feel validated. More about this weird phenomenon: https://fenwick.media/rewild/magazine/dead-broets-society-be...
Comment linking /rewild/magazine/dead-broets-society-behind-the-strange-story
on “First, Make Me Care”Submitted A Simple Guide to Beautifully Efficient Editing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI like the term broetry. https://fenwick.media/rewild/magazine/dead-broets-society-be...
Comment linking /rewild/magazine/dead-broets-society-behind-the-strange-story
on “LinkedIn CringeBot 3000”