An Engineer's Field Guide to Great Technical Writing
The Stack Overflow Podcast
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The Global Aspect of Intercultural Communication
On top of the anthropology, how much of your job is archaeology? I feel like the primary sources for documentation for me were always using the product and then talking to experts. So there is an archaeological piece there, but it's also going out to people and asking the right questions and building rapport with a lot of people. People with journalism backgrounds or research backgrounds tend to excel really well in technical writing because they're okay with asking those questions. Especially those questions are uncomfortable.
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