{"id":192,"date":"2020-03-26T15:52:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T19:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/?p=192"},"modified":"2020-03-26T15:52:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T19:52:23","slug":"how-to-be-a-lousy-technical-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/2020\/03\/26\/how-to-be-a-lousy-technical-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"How to be a lousy technical writer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some tongue-in-cheek observations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Wait for the information to come to you because it&#8217;s &#8220;supposed to&#8221;.<\/li><li>Take edits personally because &#8220;developers can&#8217;t write&#8221;.<\/li><li>Skip project meetings because they&#8217;re &#8220;too technical&#8221;.<\/li><li>Ignore learning a technology because you&#8217;re &#8220;not a programmer&#8221;.<\/li><li>Stay quiet on user interface suggestions (or bugs you find) because &#8220;nobody listens to the tech writer&#8221;.<\/li><li>Avoid planning document deliverable dates because &#8220;they&#8217;re going to change anyway&#8221;.<\/li><li>Don&#8217;t [insert task here] because &#8220;it&#8217;s not my job&#8221;.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Full disclosure: I&#8217;ve thought each of these things at least once in my career. We all have. Just don&#8217;t let them dictate your <em>actions<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some tongue-in-cheek observations: Wait for the information to come to you because it&#8217;s &#8220;supposed to&#8221;. Take edits personally because &#8220;developers can&#8217;t write&#8221;. Skip project meetings because they&#8217;re &#8220;too technical&#8221;. Ignore learning a technology because you&#8217;re &#8220;not a programmer&#8221;. Stay quiet on user interface suggestions (or bugs you find) because &#8220;nobody listens to the tech writer&#8221;. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/2020\/03\/26\/how-to-be-a-lousy-technical-writer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to be a lousy technical writer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical-writer","category-writing","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}