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I'd Rather Be Writing Podcast

I'd Rather Be Writing Podcast

By: Tom Johnson
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A technical writing podcast about the latest trends and practices in the field of technical communication. Technical communication includes topics like technical writing (software help), AI, information architecture, usability, API documentation, information design, web design, illustration, DITA, structured authoring, content strategy, visual communication, and more. If you're a technical writer or interested in technical writing, this is the one of few podcasts in this niche. I also have a blog at https://idratherbewriting.com where the podcasts and other blog topics are published. For an index of all podcasts, see https://idratherbewriting.com/podcasts.2023, I'd Rather Be Writing Politics & Government
Episodes
  • AI Book Club recording of Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare, by Katrina Manson

    AI Book Club recording of Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare, by Katrina Manson
    21 Oct 2026
    This is a recording of our AI Book Club discussion of Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare by Katrina Manson, held October 18, 2026. Ratings ranged from two stars to five, but most of the group agreed the book made AI warfare feel immediate rather than futuristic. We talk about how much of the kill chain is information work long before anyone fires a weapon, moral injury among remote operators, the habit of clicking allow on every permission prompt, who's to blame when an AI-identified target turns out to be a school, AI-driven...
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    58 min
  • Why docs still need an owner — podcast with CT Smith about WTFM

    Why docs still need an owner — podcast with CT Smith about WTFM
    19 Oct 2026
    In this podcast, co-host Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti and I chat with CT Smith about her new book, WTFM: A Practical Guide for Standing Up Docs at a Startup. We discuss why docs need a human owner even when anyone can generate content with AI, how CT kept her voice by writing the book herself in Neovim, the layered pipeline of Vale hooks, skills, model reviews, and sandbox fixtures that lets Claude Code handle about 40% of her tickets, the risk of gradual disempowerment, and why systems thinking matters most in a first docs hire.
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    52 min
  • AI Book Club recording: I Am Not a Robot by Joanna Stern

    AI Book Club recording: I Am Not a Robot by Joanna Stern
    20 Sep 2026
    This is a recording of our AI Book Club discussion of I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything by Joanna Stern, held September 20, 2026. The group gave the book its lowest ratings yet, and much of the discussion is about why: so many of the experiences come across as superficial stunts with AI, rather than true engagement. In our discussion, some found the medical chapter to be the book's strongest section. Other topics: the question of whether you should fix a system before amplifying it, chatbots that give you the candid career advice...
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    34 min
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