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Technical writing blog focusing on the latest trends, news, and other topics in the field of technical communication.

Developing internal skills for recurring documentation processes like release notes
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Looking back at the AI Book Club one year in
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On pace and value – why is moving slow boring?
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AI Book Club discussion recording of ‘Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future’, by Dan Wang
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Some thoughts after using AI to help with taxes
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Podcast: How valuable are agent skills? Conversation with Larah Vasquez and Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti
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Will tech writers survive AI? Perspectives from two professors, Nupoor Ranade and Jeremy Merritt
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AI Book Club recording of ‘If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies’
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Automation Engineering 101 for Tech Docs presentation at WTD West Coast Supermeetup
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Podcast: Doc testing, skills files, and the guardians of knowledge -- with Manny Silva
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Nobody knows what it will look like in 2 years
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Good shot, GUS!!!! How to win at pickup basketball even if you’re not all that great
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10 principles of the cyborg technical writer – brief notes and bullet points on how to use AI to augment your role
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World Brain: No Experts podcast - Three tech writers and a photographer walk into a bar (with Tom Johnson and Floyd Jones)
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The Emerging Picture of a Changed Profession: Cyborg Technical Writers — Augmented, Not Replaced, by AI
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AI Book Club recording, notes, and transcript for Sarah Wynn-Williams’s Careless People
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Using curiosity to decenter
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Bakhtin and model collapse: How to use AI with expressive writing without generating AI slop
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Podcast: Tech comm predictions for 2026 (Phase One)
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AI Book Club recording of God, Human, Animal, Machine
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