What the Default Mode Network (DMN) and Task Positive Network (TPN) modes of the brain teach us about focus | Dec 2, 2022
Two examples where high-level overviews are essential: Macbeth and Elon Musk | Nov 28, 2022
Pulling readers through long documents | Nov 16, 2022
Stoplight tutorial update -- practically every screenshot updated | Nov 1, 2022
Podcast about Archbee -- a new documentation tool with a block-based editor, API publishing capability, content re-use, and more | Oct 31, 2022
From monkey mind to calm, ordered consciousness -- even outside of flow? Wrestling with Csikszentmihalyi's assumptions about psychic entropy | Oct 25, 2022
Applying Csikszentmihalyi's psychology of flow to the writing of technical documentation | Oct 16, 2022
How to move from focus sessions to flow sessions | Oct 1, 2022
Attempting to write a Life of a [something] narrative | Sep 23, 2022
'Putting together things': Articulating a thesis about the effects of hyper-specialization on documentation | Sep 22, 2022
Techniques for deep work from Cal Newport | Sep 10, 2022
Expanding from cross-product newsletters to a book club and site | Aug 21, 2022
Some advice if you're just starting out your technical writing career | Aug 16, 2022
Systems thinking: Limits to Growth, Complex Cause and Effect, and Shifting the Burden | Aug 9, 2022
From smartphones to Netflix: moving past plateaus in growth | Jul 22, 2022
Driving without GPS — the desire to be free and in control | Jul 10, 2022
Spatial and scientific reasoning from wayfinding | Jul 9, 2022
Wayfinding requires you to be present in the world | Jul 8, 2022
Wayfinding -- finding my way without GPS | Jul 7, 2022
Systems thinking and developer portals | Jun 22, 2022
Random notes on recovering the lost art of reading | Jun 13, 2022
Blobr API portal (API doc topic) | Jun 8, 2022
The impact of technical diversity on documentation -- epiphanies on a trip to IKEA | Jun 5, 2022
Technical diversity/pluralism/fragmentation in tech comm | Jun 4, 2022
Six weeks in -- returning to smartphone (but not as before) | May 29, 2022
Review of What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains: The Shallows, by Nicholas Carr | May 20, 2022
My Commute Seattle Spotlight | May 15, 2022
One month in without a smartphone -- growing doubts about the value of technology in general | May 7, 2022
More developments on my journey away from smartphones — a sudden interest in classical music? | Apr 27, 2022
Review of Peter Norton's Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving | Apr 25, 2022
First experiences in moving away from smartphones | Apr 17, 2022
My initial rules and reasons for intentional smart phone use | Apr 16, 2022
My awakening moment about how smartphones fragment our attention span | Apr 10, 2022
Docs as Code | Apr 3, 2022
Inline ads -- updated advertising offerings | Apr 2, 2022
Keynote presentation to STC India 2022 | Mar 26, 2022
Remote work | Mar 22, 2022
Git and GitHub | Mar 20, 2022
API documentation | Mar 19, 2022
Every page is page one | Mar 16, 2022
Marcom and tech comm | Mar 14, 2022
Scrum | Mar 13, 2022
Let's Talk Docs podcast -- episode on measuring API documentation quality | Mar 7, 2022
The History of Content -- Content Components podcast with Patrick Bosek and Sarah O'Keefe | Mar 7, 2022
Preparing for technical writing jobs and interviews -- posts from Aaron Redshaw | Mar 7, 2022
Content strategy | Mar 5, 2022
DITA | Mar 4, 2022
WordPress and web CMSs | Feb 27, 2022
Quick reference guides | Feb 27, 2022
Screencasting | Feb 26, 2022
Faceted filtering | Feb 25, 2022
Wikis and crowdsourcing | Feb 24, 2022
Help authoring tools (HATs) and single-sourcing | Feb 23, 2022
Intro to the series: Trends to follow or forget | Feb 22, 2022
[Podcast] Become a technical writer: conversation with Bobby Kennedy about the technical writing courses he offers | Feb 21, 2022
My multimodal commuting strategies | Feb 19, 2022
Archbee product review -- first look at a new online platform for writing and managing documentation | Feb 14, 2022
Part 6: The newsletter as the social content of corporations | Feb 11, 2022
MEGAComm recording: How to increase awareness of tech comm inside corporate walls | Feb 10, 2022
Updated Metrics and Measurement section in API course to remove scoring aspect | Feb 8, 2022
Results of the survey about fizzled trends: Every trend is still with us | Feb 8, 2022
Survey about documentation trends that fizzled (one-minute survey) | Feb 2, 2022
Webinar recording of 'Using MadCap Flare to Generate API Documentation' | Feb 2, 2022
Part 5: More specifics about finding a focus | Jan 27, 2022
Part 4: Creating engaging content: A balance of interests | Jan 26, 2022
Part 3: Five basics for building an audience on the web | Jan 25, 2022
Part 2: Initial attempts and failures with workplace content | Jan 24, 2022
Part 1: Introduction to influence on the web | Jan 23, 2022
Themes from 2021: working from home and podcasting | Jan 12, 2022
Site analytics for 2021 -- a few observations and reflections | Jan 2, 2022
