Writing For Nerds - Blogging For Fun and (Not Much) Profit • Charles Humble • GOTO 2023

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Aarhus 2023. #GOTOcon #GOTOaar
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Charles Humble - Editor in Chief at Container Solutions

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ABSTRACT
I’m increasingly convinced that as an industry we need to get much better at sharing our knowledge with each other. Unfortunately many of us engineers suffer from a common affliction: fear of writing. It often starts at school where we were told we didn’t have a “gift for words”.

This is nonsense. Writing is a craft, and the principles of it can be learnt.

Over the last eight years, first at InfoQ and now at Container Solutions, I've helped hundreds of developers become better writers. With this talk I want to show you some of the parallels between programming and writing. I’ll also explain the process I use, explore some patterns that can help you to think about how to communicate your ideas, share some of the tips and tricks you can use to write well, and discuss how you get published.

By doing so I hope to inspire more engineers to get excited about sharing their knowledge. [...]

TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
05:14 Why write?
07:36 Parallels between writing & programming
09:34 Process
20:58 Patterns & structures
34:30 Writing well
43:21 Outro

Download slides and read the full abstract here:
https://gotoaarhus.com/2023/sessions/2519

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Anne Currie & Charles Humble • The Cloud Native Attitude • https://info.container-solutions.com/the-cloud-native-attitude-2nd-edition
William Zinsser • On Writing Well • https://amzn.to/43NvwWP
Nicole Foster • How To Write In Plain English • https://amzn.to/3XaTWHf
Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer & Jessie Stricchiola • The Art of SEO • https://amzn.to/42LSV9I
Vanessa Fox • Marketing in the Age of Google • https://amzn.to/3NxiJSx
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • http://amzn.to/3sVLyLQ
Donald G. Reinertsen • The Principles of Product Development Flow • https://amzn.to/3hJ2Ye2

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