--- title: "2022 archives" description: "{% for post in site.posts %} {% capture year %}{{post.date | date:" canonical_url: https://idratherbewriting.com/archives-2022/ --- # 2022 archives - [Book review: May I Ask a Technical Question, by Jeff Krinock and Matt Hoff](/blog/review-krinock-hoff-may-i-ask-a-technical-question/) | Dec 26, 2022 - [Thoughts on ChatGPT after reading Crawford's Why We Drive: whatever skill you outsource, atrophies](/blog/chatgpt-automation-and-atrophy/) | Dec 11, 2022 - [Having fun with ChatGPT](/blog/chatgpt-fun/) | Dec 7, 2022 - [Two examples where high-level overviews are essential: Macbeth and Elon Musk](/trends/macbeth-and-musk-and-the-high-level-overview.html) | Nov 28, 2022 - [Pulling readers through long documents](/trends/reading-long-documents.html) | Nov 16, 2022 - [Stoplight tutorial update -- practically every screenshot updated](/blog/stoplight-tutorial-update-2022) | Nov 1, 2022 - [Podcast about Archbee -- a new documentation tool with a block-based editor, API publishing capability, content re-use, and more](/blog/archbee-podcast-oct-2022/) | Oct 31, 2022 - [Attempting to write a Life of a [something] narrative](/trends/writing-a-life-of-a-something-narrative.html) | Sep 23, 2022 - ['Putting together things': Articulating a thesis about the effects of hyper-specialization on documentation](/trends/exploiting-the-systems-view-tech-writers.html) | Sep 22, 2022 - [Expanding from cross-product newsletters to a book club and site](/web-and-workplace-influence/part7-from-newsletter-to-book-club.html) | Aug 21, 2022 - [Some advice if you're just starting out your technical writing career](/blog/career-advice-just-starting-out.html) | Aug 16, 2022 - [Systems thinking: Limits to Growth, Complex Cause and Effect, and Shifting the Burden](/trends/systems-thinking-fifth-discipline.html) | Aug 9, 2022 - [Systems thinking and developer portals](/trends/systems-thinking-and-developer-portals.html) | Jun 22, 2022 - [The impact of technical diversity on documentation -- epiphanies on a trip to IKEA](/trends/impact-of-technical-diversity-on-docs.html) | Jun 5, 2022 - [Technical diversity/pluralism/fragmentation in tech comm](/trends/embracing-diversity-pluralism-fragmentation.html) | Jun 4, 2022 - [My Commute Seattle Spotlight](/blog/commute-seattle-spotlight-video/) | May 15, 2022 - [Review of Peter Norton's Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving](/blog/review-of-peter-norton-autonorama-illusory-promise-of-high-tech-driving/) | Apr 25, 2022 - [Docs as Code](/trends/trends-to-follow-or-forget-docs-as-code.html) | Apr 3, 2022 - [Inline ads -- updated advertising offerings](/blog/inline-ads-space.html) | Apr 2, 2022 - [Keynote presentation to STC India 2022](/trends/trends-to-follow-or-forget-presentation-stc-india.html) | Mar 26, 2022 - [Remote work](/trends/trends-to-follow-or-forget-remote-work.html) | Mar 22, 2022 - [Git and GitHub](/trends/trends-to-follow-or-forget-git-and-github.html) | Mar 20, 2022 - [API documentation](/trends/trends-to-follow-or-forget-api-documentation.html) | Mar 19, 2022 - [Every page is page one](/trends/trends-to-follow-or-forget-every-page-is-page-one.html) | Mar 16, 2022 - [Marcom and tech comm](/trends/trends-to-follow-or-forget-techcomm-and-marcom.html) | Mar 14, 2022 - [Scrum](/trends/trends-to-follow-or-forget-scrum.html) | Mar 13, 2022 - [Let's Talk Docs podcast -- episode on measuring API documentation quality](/trends/lets-talk-docs-podcast-featuring-me/) | Mar 7, 2022 - [The History of Content -- Content Components podcast with Patrick Bosek and Sarah O'Keefe](/blog/history-of-content-content-components-podcast/) | Mar 7, 2022 - [Preparing for technical writing jobs and interviews -- posts from Aaron Redshaw](/blog/technical-writing-jobs-and-interviews/) | Mar 7, 2022 - [Content strategy](/trends/trends-to-follow-or-forget-content-strategy.html) | Mar 5, 2022 - [DITA](/trends/trends-to-follow-or-forget-dita.html) | Mar 4, 2022 - [WordPress and web CMSs](/trends/trends-to-follow-or-forget-wordpress.html) | Feb 27, 2022 - [Quick reference guides](/trends/trends-to-follow-or-forget-quick-reference-guides.html) | Feb 27, 2022 - [Screencasting](/trends/trends-to-follow-or-forget-screencasting.html) | Feb 26, 2022 - [Faceted filtering](/trends/trends-to-follow-or-forget-faceted-filtering.html) | Feb 25, 2022 - [Wikis and crowdsourcing](/trends/trends-to-follow-or-forget-wikis.html) | Feb 24, 2022 - [Help authoring tools (HATs) and single-sourcing](/trends/trends-to-follow-or-forget-hats.html) | Feb 23, 2022 - [Intro to the series: Trends to follow or forget](/trends/trends-to-follow-or-forget-intro.html) | Feb 22, 2022 - [[Podcast] Become a technical writer: conversation with Bobby Kennedy about the technical writing courses he offers](/blog/become-a-technical-writer-podcast-with-bobby-kennedy) | Feb 21, 2022 - [My multimodal commuting strategies](/blog/multimodal-commuting-strategies.html) | Feb 19, 2022 - [Archbee product review -- first look at a new online platform for writing and managing documentation](/blog/archbee-product-review.html) | Feb 14, 2022 - [Part 6: The newsletter as the social content of corporations](/web-and-workplace-influence/part6-newsletter-content-medium.html) | Feb 11, 2022 - [MEGAComm recording: How to increase awareness of tech comm inside corporate walls](/blog/megacomm-presentation-increase-awareness-of-tech-comm) | Feb 10, 2022 - [Updated Metrics and Measurement section in API course to remove scoring aspect](/blog/updated-api-measurement-section) | Feb 8, 2022 - [Results of the survey about fizzled trends: Every trend is still with us](/blog/results-of-fizzled-trends-survey) | Feb 8, 2022 - [Survey about documentation trends that fizzled (one-minute survey)](/blog/trends-that-faded-survey) | Feb 2, 2022 - [Webinar recording of 'Using MadCap Flare to Generate API Documentation'](/blog/madcap-webinar-api-docs-vas) | Feb 2, 2022 - [Part 5: More specifics about finding a focus](/web-and-workplace-influence/part5-finding-a-focus.html) | Jan 27, 2022 - [Part 4: Creating engaging content: A balance of interests](/web-and-workplace-influence/part4-creating-engaging-content.html) | Jan 26, 2022 - [Part 3: Five basics for building an audience on the web](/web-and-workplace-influence/part3-tools-of-web-influence.html) | Jan 25, 2022 - [Part 2: Initial attempts and failures with workplace content](/web-and-workplace-influence/part2-failure-with-initial-attempts.html) | Jan 24, 2022 - [Part 1: Introduction to influence on the web](/web-and-workplace-influence/part1-introduction-to-influencers.html) | Jan 23, 2022 - [Themes from 2021: working from home and podcasting](/blog/themes-from-2021) | Jan 12, 2022 - [Site analytics for 2021 -- a few observations and reflections](/blog/2021-site-analytics-reflections) | Jan 2, 2022