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# Blogging
Simplifying complexity is the name of a series of posts I wrote following this thread. The posts aim to dig deeper into this core motto that many technical writers herald as their prime goal and value to technical projects: reducing the complexity of information into language that is easy to read, steps that are easy to follow, so that users can have success.

The following content is in the **simplifying-complexity** category:

#### [New post in Simplifying Complexity series -- Principle 11: Be both a generalist and specialist at the same time](/2018/11/30/trends-generalist-specialist-topic-in-simplifying-complexity-series/) | Nov 30, 2018

#### [Tech comm trends -- why tech writers will be collaborating more with engineers](/2018/10/09/tech-comm-trends-more-collaboration-with-engineers/) | Oct 9, 2018

#### [Tech comm trends: Providing value as a generalist in a sea of specialists (Part I)](/2018/10/02/providing-value-as-generalists-in-specialist-contexts-part-1/) | Oct 2, 2018

#### [Tech comm trends: Providing value as a generalist in a sea of specialists (Part II)](/2018/10/02/providing-value-as-generalists-in-specialist-contexts-part-2/) | Oct 2, 2018

#### [Tech comm trends: Providing value as a generalist in a sea of specialists (Part III)](/2018/10/02/providing-value-as-generalists-in-specialist-contexts-part-3/) | Oct 2, 2018

#### [Tech comm trends: Providing value as a generalist in a sea of specialists (Part IV)](/2018/10/02/providing-value-as-generalists-in-specialist-contexts-part-4/) | Oct 2, 2018

#### [Tech comm trends: Providing value as a generalist in a sea of specialists (Part V)](/2018/10/02/providing-value-as-generalists-in-specialist-contexts-part-5/) | Oct 2, 2018

#### [Tech comm trends: Providing value as a generalist in a sea of specialists (Part VI)](/2018/10/02/providing-value-as-generalists-in-specialist-contexts-part-6/) | Oct 2, 2018

#### [Tech comm trends: Providing value as a generalist in a sea of specialists (Part VII)](/2018/10/02/providing-value-as-generalists-in-specialist-contexts-part-7/) | Oct 2, 2018

#### [Pages at a glance -- the importance of the first two sentences of any topic](/2018/09/15/pages-at-a-glance-feature/) | Sep 15, 2018

#### [New article in Simplifying Complexity series -- Iterate and increment on content following an agile approach](/2018/08/31/iterate-and-increment-on-content/) | Aug 31, 2018

#### [If writing is no longer a marketable skill, what is?](/2018/08/09/writing-no-longer-a-skill/) | Aug 9, 2018

#### [My conflicted thoughts about the decentralized web (while taking the Census of Technical Communicators survey)](/2018/08/06/conflicted-thoughts-on-decentralized-web-and-survey/) | Aug 6, 2018

#### [Articulating stories that influence product adoption (new article in Simplifying Complexity series)](/2018/07/31/articulating-stories-that-influence-product-adoption/) | Jul 31, 2018

#### [Reducing the complexity of technical language (new article in Simplifying Complexity series)](/2018/07/11/reducing-the-complexity-of-technical-language/) | Jul 11, 2018

#### [Hiding Complexity -- A new Simplifying Complexity article](/2018/06/12/hiding-complexity-article/) | Jun 12, 2018

#### [New article in Simplifying Complexity: Reconstructing the absent user](/2018/05/31/reconstructing-absent-user-simplifying-complexity/) | May 31, 2018

#### [New Simplifying Complexity article on shaping information into familiar schemas, especially story](/2018/04/18/new-simplifying-complexity-article-on-schemas-and-story/) | Apr 18, 2018

#### [New article on Simplifying Complexity: Reduction, layering, and distillation as a strategy for simplicity](/2018/03/28/reduction-and-distillation-as-form-of-simplicity/) | Mar 28, 2018

#### [New article in Simplifying Complexity -- Ensuring information harmony in the larger documentation landscape](/2018/03/07/ensuring-information-harmony-in-doc-landscape/) | Mar 7, 2018

#### [New Simplifying complexity tutorial: Discoverability through metadata](/2018/02/05/new-article-discoverability-through-metadata/) | Feb 5, 2018

#### [New section on my site: Simplifying complexity](/2018/01/24/new-section-on-simplifying-complexity/) | Jan 24, 2018