This week I traveled to Louisiana to attend the Symposium for Communicating Complex Information and presented on tech comm trends. You can listen to the recording, view my slides, and...

How do you become a 10X technical writer in the workplace (10X means 10 times more efficient and productive than others)? In this post, I raise the question and then...

Listen to this post: You can download the MP3 file, subscribe in iTunes, or listen with Stitcher. Tip #1: Record your meetings with engineers With developer doc projects, engineers can quickly jump into excessive jargon and assumptions about my technical

Listen to this post: You can download the MP3 file, subscribe in iTunes, or listen with Stitcher. Our original feedback form A few months ago, we added a feedback form to our Appstore docs at work. Right below the title on every page, we added an easily

Listen to this post: You can download the MP3 file, subscribe in iTunes, or listen with Stitcher. Site analytics for Jan 1 to Dec 31, 2018 Here’s a breakdown of site traffic analytics on idratherbewriting.com from Jan 1, 2018, through Dec 31, 2018 (based

Listen to this post: You can download the MP3 file, subscribe in iTunes, or listen with Stitcher. I published the recording of the API documentation workshop that I recently gave in Menlo Park (on Nov 8, 2018). You can view the recordings on my API docum

Listen to this post: You can download the MP3 file, subscribe in iTunes, or listen with Stitcher. You can read the essay here: Principle 11: Be both a generalist and specialist through your technical acuity. How exactly does the topic of being a generali

Listen to this post: You can download the MP3 file, subscribe in iTunes, or listen with Stitcher. Critical inquiry versus vocational knowledge Lately I’ve been thinking about two types of knowledge: intellectual knowledge versus vocational knowledge. Or

Listen to this post: You can download the MP3 file, subscribe in iTunes, or listen with Stitcher. You can learn more about the API documentation workshop on eventbright here. The workshop will be held from 8am to 5pm at the Quadrus Conference Center. The

Listen to this post: You can download the MP3 file, subscribe in iTunes, or listen with Stitcher. The unresolved debate between being a specialist or generalist After I gave a recent presentation on trends, some of the attendees felt like I left the dile