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On Ad Hoc Technical Writing…
“One Sunday every month, I make the coffee at church, which means I spend a couple hours in the church kitchen. For years, I had looked right past this sign, but yesterday morning, for whatever reason, I suddenly realized what a masterpiece of technical documentation it is. It shows how to fold a…”
“I’ve started using AI quite a bit to interpret documents. I’ll have some document within which is some nugget of information I want, so I’ll upload it to ChatGPT and say, ‘Read this and tell me [the thing that I want]…’ These feels lazy, but it’s got me wondering if maybe this is a reflection on…”
On Business Fiction…
“I enjoy business fiction, though so much of it is written badly. Below are some titles I’ve read (or am reading) that I enjoyed. The key for me is verisimilitude – it has to ‘feel’ right. We all know when a story feels contrived, and I’ve read more than a few of those too. But all four of these…”
“This post linked below goes a lot of different directions, but I love this point – …the printing revolution partially caused the scientific revolution by making knowledge more rigid. Before, if some observation didn’t match some claim, you could always shrug and be like: ‘Well, the person who…”