From Graffiti Writer to Technical Writer
summary
A career narrative shows concrete pivots not vague inspiration: a 77-page Linux thesis that teaches others to install and reproduce an environment, an early website called creation graffiti pages that forces learning Unix and web tooling, a decade of sysadmin and user-support posts and courseware that become practical docs, and a current contract at on-the-go systems producing docs and videos for WordPress plugins — work that actually ships and is used.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:36Connection between graffiti writing and technical writing
- 5:14Learning unix
- 8:59Graffiti
- 13:22Team Work
- 15:23Tools
- 18:06References
- 19:30Style
- 20:26Audience
- 20:55Example
- 22:09Community
- 23:42Whats next
- 24:16My own question
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