All Episodes

AI Book Club recording of Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare, by Katrina Manson

Why docs still need an owner — podcast with CT Smith about WTFM

AI Book Club recording: I Am Not a Robot by Joanna Stern

Writing for an audience of agents — podcast with Ethan Palm from Mintlify

AI Book Club recording of The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut

Orchestrating docs instead of writing them yourself — podcast with Sarah Deaton of Anthropic

AI Book Club discussion of The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby

Judging beautiful docs, AI fatigue, and tool slop -- podcast with Fabrizio

AI Book Club discussion recording of 'Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence', by Max Tegmark

AI Book Club discussion recording of 'Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future', by Dan Wang

Podcast: How valuable are agent skills? Conversation with Larah Vasquez and Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti

The Emerging Picture of a Changed Profession: Cyborg Technical Writers — Augmented, Not Replaced, by AI

Will tech writers survive AI? Perspectives from two professors, Nupoor Ranade and Jeremy Merritt

AI Book Club recording of 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies'

Podcast: Doc testing, skills files, and the guardians of knowledge -- with Manny Silva

AI Book Club recording, notes, and transcript for Sarah Wynn-Williams's Careless People

Podcast: Tech comm predictions for 2026 (Phase One)

AI Book Club recording of God, Human, Animal, Machine

Podcast: Writing as telepathy: AI tools, automation, and an intentionally offline life -- conversation with CT Smith

AI Book Club recording, notes, and transcript for Ethan Mollick's Co-Intelligence

Documentation theater and the acceleration paradox -- podcast episode 3 with Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti

Recording, transcript, and notes for AI Book Club discussion of Yuval Noah Harari's Nexus

MCP servers and the role tech writers can play in shaping AI capabilities and outcomes -- podcast with Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti and Anandi Knuppel

Recording of AI book club session of 'Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation', by Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst

Podcast: How AI is changing the role of technical writers to context curators and content directors

Recording of AI Book Club discussion of Karen Hao's Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

Recording of AI Book Club discussion about Kai-fu Lee's AI Superpowers

Will our next users be AI agents? The future of content delivery with Fabrice Lacroix, founder of Fluid Topics (podcast)

AI Book Club recording and notes for The Singularity is Nearer, by Ray Kurzweil

Notes and discussion for Suleyman's <i>The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future</i> + AI Book Club recording and transcript

Notes and discussion for John Warner's <i>More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI</i> + AI Book Club recording

Rethinking traditional approaches to release notes -- recording of WTD Australia presentation

My 2025 trends predictions for tech comm

[Podcast] GenAI and Document360: Conversation with Saravana Kumar

Podcast: Task decomposition and complex tree diagrams

Podcast: Using long-token contexts to quality check an entire API doc set

Podcast: Using file diffs for better release notes in reference docs

Podcast: Populating documentation templates using AI

Podcast: Gathering source material for context input

Podcast: Creating high-fidelity, thematically organized notes from engineering meetings using AI

[Podcast] Uncovering and communicating the value of your tech comm teams' work, with Keren Brown

[Podcast] Breaking ground: New API documentation course at UW, with Bob Watson

My 2024 technical writing trends and predictions

Podcast: Notes and themes from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig

Webinar recording: Experiments and use cases for AI from a tech writer’s perspective

30+ ways I’m using AI in everyday writing life as a technical writer, blogger, and curious human

Podcast: The evolution of podcasting, with Ed Marsh

Podcast: Tech writing and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, with Dan Grabski

Doing research with AI tools -- avoiding the trap of fabricated URLs

Notes for Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality

My experience trying to write original, full-length human-sounding articles using Claude AI

Chatting about AI trends and tech comm with Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti

[Podcast] AI and APIs: What works, what doesn't

Presentation recording: Specialization myopia syndrome and the content journey

Podcast: All about Redocly, with founder Adam Altman

Podcast about Archbee -- a new documentation tool with a block-based editor, API publishing capability, content re-use, and more

Keynote presentation to STC India 2022

[Podcast] Become a technical writer: conversation with Bobby Kennedy about the technical writing courses he offers

MEGAComm recording: How to increase awareness of tech comm inside corporate walls

Presentation recording -- 'Best practices in API docs: Product overviews and getting started tutorials'

tcworld China 2021 keynote: 'Tech comm and marketing: How to make your tech comm group more visible to those within your company'

Recording of 'Product overviews vs. getting started tutorials: striking a balance between read-first and try-first user behaviors'

Videocast: Micro content and Flare -- Conversation with Kate Schneider

The story behind Document360 -- podcast with founder Saravana Kumar

Playing a product design role as a content designer -- podcast with Jonathon Colman

A tip for doc reviews -- bring a list of questions

Developer portal strategies for complex landscapes -- conversation with Kristof van Tomme

API the Docs recording: How Trends in API Documentation Differ from other Tech Comm Trends

WTD Australia event recording -- 'Remote discussion: Techcomm in the times of pandemic'

Are technical writers increasingly playing non-technical roles? Some thoughts on the evolution of technical writing roles

Podcast: Users as producers of knowledge -- conversation with Nupoor Ranade about how tech writer roles are changing

Webinar recording: How Trends in API Documentation Differ from other Tech Comm Trends

Introduction to API documentation - Recording from Los Angeles API documentation workshop

Podcast: How Paligo is filling a niche in the CCMS market for complex documentation, with Anders Svensson

Podcast with Andrew Davis: Hiring API doc writers -- an inside look at fixing broken processes

From API docs to developer portals

Podcast: API Design and Usability with Arnaud Lauret (API Handyman)

Podcast: Dealing with Project Overload -- Strategies to Manage Overflowing Documentation Tasks

Podcast: 10 myths about API documentation

Recording of Tech Comm Trends Presentation (STC Puget Sound chapter)

Crash course in API documentation -- a one-hour video

Corporate exodus narratives: A close look at the tension between the corporation and academia

Recording and slides for my trends presentation at the Symposium for Communicating Complex Information (SCCI)

How to become a 10X technical writer in the workplace

How to motivate users to provide feedback: Show that you're listening to their input

Site analytics from Jan 1 to Dec 31, 2018 -- are more engineers writing docs now?

Recording for Menlo Park API documentation workshop now available -- and some thoughts on using cardioid versus omnidirectional microphones for recording

New post in Simplifying Complexity series -- Principle 11: Be both a generalist and specialist at the same time

How to avoid being a secretary for engineers

Upcoming full-day API documentation workshop in Menlo Park

Preferring technical acuity over specialized knowledge

If writing is no longer a marketable skill, what is?

My conflicted thoughts about the decentralized web (while taking the Census of Technical Communicators survey)

Articulating stories that influence product adoption (new article in Simplifying Complexity series)

The relationship between academics and practitioners -- Podcast with Kirk St. Amant

Reducing the complexity of technical language (new article in Simplifying Complexity series)

Evaluating the user experience of documentation -- Podcast with Bob Watson

Recording of API documentation workshop in Denver

Recording of STC San Francisco presentation: Beyond mere endpoint reference — the overlooked content in API documentation

Recording of OpenAPI and Swagger presentation (for STC and WTD San Diego)