An Engineer's Field Guide to Great Technical Writing
The Stack Overflow Podcast
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The Imposter Syndrome of Open Source Communities
Zachary Kucharsky: I had a conversation with our co-founder Joel Spolsky when I started. He used a very sort of utilitarian metaphor, which is like imagine that you are the new superintendent of a building. And it is powerful to be able to work in analogies that don't do violence to the technical nature of the material,. But also speak to the humanity of the people who are there to learn and to read. How do you get a developer to write for another developer and have them convey the information? Well, I think that it doesn't require a lot of convincing, honestly.
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