Kate with sass
@knowledgewithsass.bsky.social
📑 Knowledge management coach
🥾 AT thru-hiker 2018
🍄 Lover of processes, cheese, and mushrooms
🥾 AT thru-hiker 2018
🍄 Lover of processes, cheese, and mushrooms
Balancing reactive and proactive docs changes is always top-of-mind for me. I know it's not the most shocking of observations, but it feels important to actually name this problem and normalize the tension between those needs.
A quote from S3:E5 of The Not-Boring Tech Writer podcast, where Kate (@knowledgewithsass.bsky.social) discusses her docs hierarchy of needs and how we prioritize our work.
#TechWriting #Documentation
#TechWriting #Documentation
March 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Balancing reactive and proactive docs changes is always top-of-mind for me. I know it's not the most shocking of observations, but it feels important to actually name this problem and normalize the tension between those needs.
Tech writing peeps, since I host TNBTW, this question is coming directly from me: what are the learning resources you've found most helpful in your TW journey? Add them as comments on the original thread, pretty please! 🙏
Janine makes a great point about tech writing being more about attitude than formal education. But we're curious—what resources have helped you in your tech writing career? Any books, courses, communities, or other resources that made a difference? Please share your recommendations!
![Janine Chan quote from Season 3, Episode 4 of The Not-Boring Tech Writer podcast: "The [technical writing] courses that you can take might not prepare you for the actual jobs... I don't think there is that box you can check off by taking a course. I think it's more a matter of attitude... You tell yourself that you're capable of learning these new skills, and you play around until you get it done... To me, that's emblematic of tech writing."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:svnuibdhceegivwg3bupk2lj/bafkreielq6istoktxtinhm2xzrqq3qtvudqnla5wlqvqplee2k6gqc4cpa@jpeg)
March 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Tech writing peeps, since I host TNBTW, this question is coming directly from me: what are the learning resources you've found most helpful in your TW journey? Add them as comments on the original thread, pretty please! 🙏
Tech writing peeps: I've been mulling over content types a lot lately, and I'm curious: Do you have explicitly defined content types besides the Diàtaxis-styled types? I'd love to know what they are and how you define 'em!
November 28, 2024 at 2:00 AM
Tech writing peeps: I've been mulling over content types a lot lately, and I'm curious: Do you have explicitly defined content types besides the Diàtaxis-styled types? I'd love to know what they are and how you define 'em!