Episodes

  • Podcast: How AI is changing the role of technical writers to context curators and content directors

    Podcast: How AI is changing the role of technical writers to context curators and content directors
    Sep 28 2025
    In this conversational podcast, Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti (Passo.uno) and I talk about the impact of AI on the technical writing profession. We tackle the anxiety, seen and felt almost everywhere, but especially on Reddit, within the community about job security and analyze the evolution of the technical writer's role into a more strategic context curator or content director. We also cover practical applications of AI, such as using agents markdown files to guide language models (with style overrides or API reference contexts), and the role documentation plays in improving AI's outputs (Fabri's phrase AI must RTFM).
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    54 mins
  • Recording of AI Book Club discussion of Karen Hao's Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

    Recording of AI Book Club discussion of Karen Hao's Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
    Sep 22 2025
    This is a recording of the AI Book Club discussion about Karen Hao's Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI. The discussion is an informal, casual discussion with about half a dozen people online through Google Meet. You can also read a transcript and other details about the book here.
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    59 mins
  • Recording of AI Book Club discussion about Kai-fu Lee's AI Superpowers

    Recording of AI Book Club discussion about Kai-fu Lee's AI Superpowers
    Aug 19 2025
    This is a recording of our AI Book Club session discussing Kai-Fu Lee's AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order. There are 4 people in this book club discussion, and our conversation focuses on the emerging AI duopoly between the US and China. We share our own US-centric blind spots and weigh the political and cultural implications of China potentially winning the AI race. We also talk about Kai-Fu Lee's prediction of mass job displacement and his proposed social investment stipend, questioning both its feasibility and its potential drawbacks. The discussion also explores how our own professional...
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Will our next users be AI agents? The future of content delivery with Fabrice Lacroix, founder of Fluid Topics (podcast)

    Will our next users be AI agents? The future of content delivery with Fabrice Lacroix, founder of Fluid Topics (podcast)
    Jul 5 2025
    In this podcast, I chat with Fabrice Lacroix, founder of Fluid Topics, about the evolution of technical communication. Fabrice describes the industry's progression from (1) delivering static, monolithic PDFs to (2) using Content Delivery Platforms (CDPs) that provide dynamic, topic-based information directly to users to (3) developing content not just for human consumption, but for AI agents that will use this knowledge to automate complex tasks and workflows.
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    44 mins
  • AI Book Club recording and notes for The Singularity is Nearer, by Ray Kurzweil

    AI Book Club recording and notes for The Singularity is Nearer, by Ray Kurzweil
    Jun 15 2025
    This is a recording of our AI Book Club session discussing Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity is Nearer podcast: When We Merge With AI. You can watch the recording on YouTube, listen to the audio file, read some summary notes, browse discussion questions, and even listen to a NotebookLM podcast (based on the summary). There are 5 people in this book club discussion, and we focus a lot on the topics of acceleration, especially as we see it happening in the workplace. We also weigh in on Kurzweil's techno utopianism and how persuaded we are by the arguments about AGI landing...
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    56 mins
  • Notes and discussion for Suleyman's The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future + AI Book Club recording and transcript

    Notes and discussion for Suleyman's The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future + AI Book Club recording and transcript
    May 17 2025
    This post describes the key arguments and themes in The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future, by Mustafa Suleyman, for the AI Book Club: A Human in the Loop. This post not only breaks down the logic but also jumps off into some themes (beyond the book) that might be more tech-writer relevant, such as potential future job titles, areas of focus for tech writers to thrive now, questions for discussion, and more. It also contains the book club recording.
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    1 hr
  • Notes and discussion for Jonathan Warner's More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI

    Notes and discussion for Jonathan Warner's More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI
    Apr 15 2025
    This post has notes and questions for discussion for More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI, published in February 2025 by Jonathan Warner. Warner's book, which explores what we lose when we outsource writing to AI, is the first book in the AI Book Club: A Human in the Loop.
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    1 hr
  • Rethinking traditional approaches to release notes -- recording of WTD Australia presentation

    Rethinking traditional approaches to release notes -- recording of WTD Australia presentation
    Feb 17 2025
    I gave a presentation to the Write the Docs Australia group on using AI to write release notes using file diffs, on Feb 16, 2025. Here's the recording, presentation description, and transcript.
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    57 mins