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I use Mortimer's system for non-fiction works, which is where it makes the most sense. I would also use it if I was doing a really deep dive in a fiction work. For most fiction tha…

Now we just need something to replace paper for a whole new rock-paper-scissors paradigm.

So many things are like that. Trying to bolt on accessibility or security as an afterthought never work as well as making those things part of the initial design. I've been at this…

WordStar was great once you had the keycombos memorized. WordPerfect was great for doing lots of formatting it was so easy to make a signature for printing a booklet or zine. I've …

You can't look at the total acreage of the state as a metric when 64.4% of the state is owned by the federal government. The proposed site is twice the size of Manhattan, NY and si…

Wasn't there a case of a F-150 running over a Lamborghini in a parking lot a few weeks ago, because the driver of the pickup couldn't see the supercar?

But, but, they're digital natives, oh course they know all about computers. /s I get that. I used to be able to overhaul a VW beetle on the side of the road with regular tools. A c…

That is truly awesome. Good on you.

For one company, I made documentation for archive and backup software and I worked closely with tech support. Most customers were sysadmins, and a small subset had no clue what the…

I never try to speak to everyone as a tech writer. Tutorials are for people who'd never used our software before, but even then I could assume a certain level of computer literacy,…

Authenticity basically revolves around waves of immigrants. The authentic food comes from the time and place the immigrants came from. 20 years later things have changed. Food pric…

Some people looking for ways to extract wealth through the school system. There are always cuts at the classroom level but more money than ever at the admin level. Some people are …

After 12 years of trying, my manager has finally convinced the boss that dev docs and user docs are different, because Claude made different documentation for different audiences. …

The thing that drives me the most nuts is when it is just that one ad, shown over, and over and over again, sometimes twice in a row, which just makes me note to never, ever buy fr…

I help run a writer's symposium. We get about 200 presenters and 1200 attendees a year. No one's journey is the same. What worked for one; failed for another. You have to find what…

That is useful insight. The concept of the Sunk Cost Fallacy may be useful to you.

Are you an extrovert or introvert? Look at how you spend your time. Do you have to spend time with people or have to be alone sometimes? What do you do when you have nothing else t…

Just started working on a book to celebrate the 50th year of our symposium, which is coming up in 5 years. The initial idea is a how-to book, filled with essays from past contribut…

In general, I am talking about non-technical or technical in a different field. In my case right now, our users are civil engineers, they just want to be able to use our software t…

My manager just told me that after 12 years of trying to get one of the founders to understand the difference between dev docs and user docs, they tried getting Claude to do it and…

Location: Orem, Utah Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Technical Writing, Information Development, User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI), Electronics Engineering,…

A quote that stuck with me: "We are all crew on Spaceship Earth. There are no passengers." And anyone that thinks they are the captain, is wrong.

I've lived in a 100 year old house and and in a brand new house, they both had issues. That also both had advantages too. Oddly the older house had a better designed kitchen. Our l…

Look up Roman concrete. There are 2000 year old bridges and aqueducts still in use. We only recently figured out how to reproduce Roman concrete. We’d have more but a lot were blow…

Yes, QA should exist, and should be managed by Operations. I've been places where devs have no idea what the product-as a whole-does. They just work on the feature of the sprint an…