2025 archives
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Developing internal skills for recurring documentation processes like release notes | May 4, 2026
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Looking back at the AI Book Club one year in | Apr 28, 2026
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On pace and value -- why is moving slow boring? | Apr 27, 2026
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Frenetic thinking | Apr 26, 2026
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Work expands to fill the space allotted | Apr 26, 2026
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Too much coffee? | Apr 24, 2026
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AI Book Club discussion recording of 'Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future', by Dan Wang | Apr 23, 2026
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Some thoughts after using AI to help with taxes | Apr 20, 2026
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Podcast: How valuable are agent skills? Conversation with Larah Vasquez and Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti | Apr 12, 2026
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The Emerging Picture of a Changed Profession: Cyborg Technical Writers — Augmented, Not Replaced, by AI | Apr 5, 2026
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Will tech writers survive AI? Perspectives from two professors, Nupoor Ranade and Jeremy Merritt | Mar 21, 2026
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AI Book Club recording of 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies' | Mar 17, 2026
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Recording of Automation Engineering 101 for Tech Docs presentation at WTD West Coast Supermeetup | Mar 12, 2026
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Cracking the code on corporate visibility | Mar 8, 2026
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Podcast: Doc testing, skills files, and the guardians of knowledge -- with Manny Silva | Mar 8, 2026
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Nobody knows what it will look like in 2 years | Mar 3, 2026
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Good shot, GUS!!!! How to win at pickup basketball even if you're not all that great | Mar 1, 2026
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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 | Feb 27, 2026
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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) | Feb 25, 2026
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Using curiosity to decenter | Feb 16, 2026
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AI Book Club recording, notes, and transcript for Sarah Wynn-Williams's Careless People | Feb 16, 2026
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Bakhtin and model collapse: How to use AI with expressive writing without generating AI slop | Jan 30, 2026
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Podcast: Tech comm predictions for 2026 (Phase One) | Jan 25, 2026
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AI Book Club recording of God, Human, Animal, Machine | Jan 24, 2026
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Podcast: Writing as telepathy: AI tools, automation, and an intentionally offline life -- conversation with CT Smith | Jan 4, 2026
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Book review of 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies'—why AI doom isn't as visceral as nuclear war | Jan 3, 2026
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12 predictions for tech comm in 2026 | Jan 1, 2026
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