I'd Rather Be Writing Blog and API doc course

In this podcast, co-host Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti and I chat with CT Smith about her new book, WTFM: A Practical Guide for Standing Up Docs at a Startup.

My API documentation course is free on the web, but I also sell a PDF version of it through Buy Me a Coffee.

In the past couple of months, my focus as a tech writer has shifted from writing to building machines, which in reality are elaborate skills that do things.

I've been adding to my agent skills course, including a reworked section on product skills that now takes a docs-first stance after I started seeing log data.

This is a recording of our AI Book Club discussion of I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything by Joanna Stern, held September 20, 2026.

One thing I'm not great at is buying cars.

Six new books have recently been published in tech comm, and I wanted to round them up in case you missed some of them in your news feeds.

In an attempt to get to work without a car, I tried three bike + transit routes from the Fairwood area of Renton to South Lake Union in Seattle.

In this podcast, co-host Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti and I chat with Ethan Palm, a technical writer and knowledge engineer at Mintlify, about what happens when nearly half your documentation traffic comes from AI agents.

We recently read The MANIAC, by Benjamin Labatut in my AI Book Club.

This is a recording of our AI Book Club discussion of The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut, held August 16, 2026.

This week I attended Ai4, promoted as the largest AI conference in North America.

In this podcast, co-host Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti and I chat with Sarah Deaton, a technical writer at Anthropic who works on the Claude Code docs, about what documentation work looks like when much of it is automated.

I'm trying to build out a course on agent skills.

This is a guest post from Jeremy Rosselot-Merritt, an assistant professor in the School of Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication at James Madison University.

This is Part II of a guest post from Jeremy Rosselot-Merritt, an assistant professor at James Madison University.

The thing I'm most excited about with AI lately is SKILLs.

This is a recording of the AI Book Club discussion of Sebastian Mallaby's The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence.

In this podcast, I chat with Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti about a variety of topics related to AI and docs, such as applying Italo Calvino's literary principles of lightness and quickness to evaluate docs, the reality of AI review fatigue versus creator fatig…

This is a recording of the AI Book Club discussion of Max Tegmark's Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

This post is my review of Max Tegmark's Life 3.0, a book we read in the AI Book Club.

My hypothesis this year around AI was that if I develop some agent skills to speed up repeatable processes, it might clear up my bandwidth and free up time for me to work on non-repeatable doc tasks.