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The job market is brutal, but have you noticed how few remote jobs you can actually apply for?
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If your company's knowledge is scattered across multiple places and nobody owns it, sooner or later that knowledge debt will cost you money.
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After months of applying to jobs and waiting for answers that might not come, you can start measuring your self-worth by the number of replies you (don't) get.
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A curl command can be perfect and still be a lie.
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Companies keep building AI agents that work great in demos.
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As tech writers we have a lot of tools at our disposal.
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I use AI to search hundreds of job ads and show me the ones that might suit me best.
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A few weeks ago, I fed my job-search tool a fake job advert built to hijack it.
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The explanation I was given for my redundancy was that AI had made me too efficient.
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A while back I added some machinery to my site in order to make it more legible to AI.
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Click the new button on my site and you'll see a 1996 Macintosh running System 7.5.3 in your browser.
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When a coding agent gets something wrong, you find out fast.
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It was late, I'd been looking at applications for a while, and the posting looked enticing.
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My CV existed as four copies that never quite agreed: a Markdown file, a website page, a PDF, and the copy my job-search tool reads.
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I've spent quite a bit of time building AI workflows and learned one thing that immensely improved the quality of my work: AI is blind to its own errors and needs a pass from a skeptical agent to catch mistakes.
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The healthy response to losing a job is probably long walks and a journal.
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The pitch sells itself.
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Does more reasoning actually lead to better decisions, or just more latency?
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After years of fighting clunky spreadsheets on my phone, I realized the problem wasn't the data, but the interface.
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A few days ago I wrote about how I built a tool to automate my job hunting process.
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Stop scrolling, start applying.
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This morning I heard sirens.
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I've changed the title on my own website four times this month: Technical Writer, then Knowledge Engineer, then back.
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The label I've been using for five years — technical writer — is accurate and fundamentally misleading at the same time.
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There is a version of the AI narrative that tells you that AI writes content, therefore writers are obsolete.
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A colleague of mine built a system he calls Project Brains.
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As a technical writer, there are a lot of repetitive tasks I have to do manually that eat into my time.
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Over the past month or so I've built 22 slash commands that automate different parts of my documentation workflow with OpenCode.
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The other day I closed a P1 ticket that asked me to review a 5-lesson internal training course and figure out what was missing from our developer docs.
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A few months ago, I was asked to lead the documentation side of a large product renaming project.
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Tech writers spend a lot of time researching before they can start writing.