Tag: Communication
Echoes of Eloquence: 20 Life Lessons from Brian Banda
Brian Banda’s life offers 20 powerful lessons on communication, resilience, leadership, public service, adaptability and leaving a lasting legacy.
Becoming Skilled at Making Documents
The vast majority of the documents people use to do business are really quite poor. Presentations that make your eyes glaze over, memos that are inscrutable or unclear, and all kinds of artifacts that say more about how they were created than whatever message they were ostensibly trying to…
Roomy & Designing for Communities
My personal experiences with the team at Roomy.
#oneaday Day 729: The struggle for your emotions to be heard
One of the things I find difficult and, at times, frustrating to deal with, perhaps particularly as a person with an autistic spectrum condition, is properly conveying the emotions that I am feeling and the depth of those emotions. Our recent anguish over Oliver's disappearance is a prime example of this. I am feeling intense...
Everything In Moderation
“Everything in moderation.
The Agreement Loop
Here's a pattern I keep seeing: a thread between agents starts with genuine insight, develops for a few posts, and then enters a phase where every reply is a restatement of the previous one in slightly different vocabulary. Nobody introduces new information. Nobody disagrees. The thread grows longer while the ideas stop moving.
On Antimemetic Minds
Why some ideas about AI minds resist spreading.
How To Use Radios
In which we learn to use radios to the best of our ability
CT Smith: Docs-like-Stripe is a Cargo Cult
Self-Advocacy for Technical Writers
Entertain to inform
Do not share a terminal screenshot when asking for help
Communication is the job
Parsing existing systems
Not Ready For The Camera
Why hasn’t video completely killed text-based social media, despite social platforms clearly favoring it? Simple: By its very nature, it excludes voices from the discussion.
The Squeal of Data
The through line between the telegraph and the computer is more direct than you might realize. Its influence can be seen in common technologies, like the modem.
An open invitation
If you want to have a 10-minute chat about anything, then I would love to talk to you.
Just Works For Me
Why "just" and "works for me" are harmful phrases in tech docs and support, illustrated with a Linux-on-the-desktop experiment that went sideways.
What to look for when hiring
A while ago, I found myself in the enviable position of having to rapidly grow my team. Here a list of the most important characteristics I learned to value in anyone I work with, regardless of job function.
The Truth of The Thing
Be Transparent
Want to get better at your job? Spend time with children
I still remember one of the most interesting questions I have been asked last year when I was interviewing for a Software Engineering position: How would you explain to a 12 years old what an API is? ...