I'd Rather Be Writing Podcast
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I'd Rather Be Writing Podcast
A technical writing podcast about the latest trends and practices in the field of technical communication. Technical communication includes topics like technical writing (software help), AI, information architecture, usability, API documentation, information design, web design, illustration, DITA, s...
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Podcast: How AI is changing the role of technical writers to context curators and content directors
In this conversational podcast, Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti (Passo.uno) and I talk about the impact of AI on the technical writing profession. We tackle...
Recording of AI Book Club discussion of Karen Hao's Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
This is a recording of the AI Book Club discussion about Karen Hao's Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI. The discussion is an...
Recording of AI Book Club discussion about Kai-fu Lee's AI Superpowers
This is a recording of our AI Book Club session discussing Kai-Fu Lee's AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order. There are 4 pe...
Will our next users be AI agents? The future of content delivery with Fabrice Lacroix, founder of Fluid Topics (podcast)
In this podcast, I chat with Fabrice Lacroix, founder of Fluid Topics, about the evolution of technical communication. Fabrice describes the industry'...
AI Book Club recording and notes for The Singularity is Nearer, by Ray Kurzweil
This is a recording of our AI Book Club session discussing Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge With AI. You can watch the recordin...
Notes and discussion for Suleyman's <i>The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future</i> + AI Book Club recording and transcript
This post describes the key arguments and themes in The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future, by Mustafa Suleyman, for the AI Book Club: A Human in...
Notes and discussion for Jonathan Warner's <i>More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI</i> + AI Book Club recording
This post has notes and questions for discussion for More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI, published in February 2025 by Jonat...
Rethinking traditional approaches to release notes -- recording of WTD Australia presentation
I gave a presentation to the Write the Docs Australia group on using AI to write release notes using file diffs, on Feb 16, 2025. Here's the recording...
My 2025 trends predictions for tech comm
It's that time of year again when we take to analyzing trends. If you know me, you're probably gearing up for a load of AI-optimistic predictions beca...
[Podcast] GenAI and Document360: Conversation with Saravana Kumar
This podcast explores GenAI in technical documentation scenarios, highlighting the AI features and capabilities provided in Document360. I talk with S...
Podcast: Task decomposition and complex tree diagrams
This tutorial will help you understand task decomposition by guiding you through the process of creating a complex tree diagram that's too sophisticat...
Podcast: Using long-token contexts to quality check an entire API doc set
One of the advantages of recent Gen AI updates is the massive token input context. When you can pass in an entire set of documentation as an input, yo...
Podcast: Using file diffs for better release notes in reference docs
You can use AI prompts when creating release notes for APIs by leveraging file diffs from regenerated reference documentation. The file diffs from ver...
Podcast: Populating documentation templates using AI
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use AI to populate documentation templates with the source material you've gathered. For example, API overviews...
Podcast: Gathering source material for context input
One of the most successful strategies for using AI is to pass in an abundance of source material that can augument and inform the AI's responses. In t...
Podcast: Creating high-fidelity, thematically organized notes from engineering meetings using AI
For AI tools to generate accurate information for documentation you're writing, you need to pass in source material. This usually means meeting with e...
[Podcast] Uncovering and communicating the value of your tech comm teams' work, with Keren Brown
In this podcast episode, I talk with Keren Brown, VP of Marketing and Value at Zoomin Software, about strategies for technical writers to demonstrate...
[Podcast] Breaking ground: New API documentation course at UW, with Bob Watson
In this podcast, I chat with Bob Watson about an upcoming API documentation course he'll be teaching at the University of Washington. Bob has extensiv...
My 2024 technical writing trends and predictions
I've been mulling over whether to write a trends post this year. There's so much uncertainty, it's hard to feel confident about how the tech writing p...
Podcast: Notes and themes from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
These are some notes and thoughts from reading Robert Pirsig's classic philosophical novel, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, published in 19...
Webinar recording: Experiments and use cases for AI from a tech writer’s perspective
I recently gave a webinar titled 'Experiments and use cases for AI from a tech writer’s perspective' on December 8, 2023. The webinar was sponsored by...
30+ ways I’m using AI in everyday writing life as a technical writer, blogger, and curious human
In this post, I provide over 30 real-life examples of how I'm using AI on a daily basis, not just for technical writing tasks but more broadly in life...
Podcast: The evolution of podcasting, with Ed Marsh
In this podcast, I talk with Ed Marsh about podcasting. You may have listened to Ed Marsh's Content Content podcast previously. As an experienced podc...
Podcast: Tech writing and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, with Dan Grabski
In this episode, I chat with Dan Grabski, a senior content developer based in Portland, both about his recent WTD talk titled 'Zen and the Art of Manu...
Doing research with AI tools -- avoiding the trap of fabricated URLs
In this short podcast, I explore using AI tools to do research, the potential for fake URLs, and how to deal with the fabrication. I started by using...
Notes for Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality
In Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality, Melissa and Chris Bruntlett describe how the Dutch achieved so much cycling succ...
My experience trying to write original, full-length human-sounding articles using Claude AI
You can use AI tools like Claude to help you write full-length content. By going paragraph-by-paragraph, you can direct the AI while seemingly maintai...
Chatting about AI trends and tech comm with Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti
In this podcast, I chat with Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti, a tech writer in Barcelona who blogs at passo.uno and works for Splunk, about various AI news t...
[Podcast] AI and APIs: What works, what doesn't
In conversations about AI, a lot of tech writers are asking what kind of scenarios is AI good for? What works, what doesn’t? In which scenarios? You m...
Presentation recording: Specialization myopia syndrome and the content journey
This is a recording of a presentation called Specialization myopia syndrome and the content journey, which I gave to a company's private tech comm eve...
Podcast: All about Redocly, with founder Adam Altman
In this podcast, I chat with Adam Altman all about Redocly, an authoring/publishing tool for creating API documentation. Topics we discuss include why...
Podcast about Archbee -- a new documentation tool with a block-based editor, API publishing capability, content re-use, and more
Archbee is a relatively new documentation tool that offers a block-based editor, API publishing capability, content re-use, and more. The initial vers...
Keynote presentation to STC India 2022
This post is part of a series that explores tech comm trends that I've either followed or forgotten, and why. The overall goal is to better understand...
[Podcast] Become a technical writer: conversation with Bobby Kennedy about the technical writing courses he offers
I recently chatted with Bobby Kennedy to learn more about the technical writing courses he's offering at becometechnicalwriter.com. In this podcast, h...
MEGAComm recording: How to increase awareness of tech comm inside corporate walls
I recently gave a presentation called How to increase awareness of tech comm inside corporate walls at the MEGAComm 2022 conference, which is a confer...
Presentation recording -- 'Best practices in API docs: Product overviews and getting started tutorials'
I recently gave an online presentation about product overviews and getting started tutorials in API docs, sponsored by the STC Washington, D.C.-Baltim...
tcworld China 2021 keynote: 'Tech comm and marketing: How to make your tech comm group more visible to those within your company'
I recently gave a keynote presentation at tcworld China 2021 on the topic of tech comm and marketing. This post provides a recording of the presentati...
Recording of 'Product overviews vs. getting started tutorials: striking a balance between read-first and try-first user behaviors'
I recently gave a webinar to tekom Europe about product overviews and getting started tutorials. The recording and slides are below.
Videocast: Micro content and Flare -- Conversation with Kate Schneider
In this videocast, I chat with Kate Schneider about micro content and Flare. Kate shares micro content examples from her current documentation and exp...
The story behind Document360 -- podcast with founder Saravana Kumar
In a previous post, I explored how Document360, a new cloud-based documentation platform, handles API documentation scenarios. This time, I decided to...