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Lessons learned from my recent tech writing job hunt

After nearly two years of quietly navigating the tech job market, I’ve landed a new role as a technical writer at Cribl. In this blog entry, I share insights from my job-hunting journey, including tips and strategies that helped me succeed.

Aug 17, 2024 - 25 min read

An open love letter to the business fiction genre

In this post, I explore a sub-genre of business books that merges gripping storytelling with strategic problem-solving. I discuss what makes this genre compelling and how this genre’s insights can enhance technical documentation.

Jul 19, 2024 - 22 min read

My personal user manual

Curious about how I approach my work and work with others? Read my personal user manual where I share my strengths, communication style, motivations, and more. This post is great for my colleagues, coworkers, fellow contributors, or anyone who wants to get to know me better.

Jun 19, 2024 - 7 min read

Community-driven development: Getting started in open source software

Get ready to dive into the world of open source software! In this talk, you’ll learn how to leverage the open source community to build a strong network with other professionals working in software.

May 23, 2024 - 5 min read

4 observations about the current state of AI in tech writing today

In this blog entry, I capture some of my current thoughts about AI and its impact on the tech industry and technical writing as of today.

Apr 22, 2024 - 17 min read

Welcome to my new portfolio site!

I’m happy to welcome you to my new portfolio website! This site is coded from scratch in Hugo. The design of the site is 100% my own and I coded all the CSS/SCSS myself.

Mar 3, 2024 - 4 min read

Finding peace of mind when your company is acquired

In this post, I share my tips and strategies for coping with change when your company is acquired. Every big organizational change brings both new challenges and opportunities.

Jan 19, 2024 - 10 min read

Tutorial: Use Confluence to build a content collaboration space (Part Two)

In part two of this tutorial series, you will learn how to build a content publishing workflow that will help your team track content projects over time.

Dec 12, 2023 - 12 min read

Tutorial: Use Confluence to build a content collaboration space (Part One)

In this tutorial series, you will learn how to use Confluence to collaborate with your cross-functional team to move new content ideas through a content creation workflow.

Dec 11, 2023 - 12 min read

Using Jira to support multiple teams

Technical writers often have to support multiple development teams. Jira or other ticket management systems can help you track, visualize, and communicate your workload to competing stakeholders.

Nov 18, 2023 - 4 min read

Coordinating major documentation projects with GitLab

My fellow Good Docs colleague Aaron Peters and I partnered with GitLab to write a blog entry for about how we use GitLab in our release planning and management.

Aug 25, 2023 - 1 min read

Building The Good Docs Project template roadmap

The Good Docs Project template product roadmap outlines the goals, vision, and work our open source project has set out to accomplish. In this blog post, I explain how we brought our product roadmap to life.

Jul 23, 2023 - 6 min read