I'd Rather Be Writing Podcast

Technology Podcasts

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,...

Episodes

Judging beautiful docs, AI fatigue, and tool slop

AI Book Club discussion recording of 'Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence', by Max Tegmark

AI Book Club discussion recording of 'Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future', by Dan Wang

Podcast: How valuable are agent skills? Conversation with Larah Vasquez and Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti

The Emerging Picture of a Changed Profession: Cyborg Technical Writers — Augmented, Not Replaced, by AI

Will tech writers survive AI? Perspectives from two professors, Nupoor Ranade and Jeremy Merritt

AI Book Club recording of 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies'

Podcast: Doc testing, skills files, and the guardians of knowledge -- with Manny Silva

AI Book Club recording, notes, and transcript for Sarah Wynn-Williams's Careless People

Podcast: Tech comm predictions for 2026 (Phase One)

AI Book Club recording of God, Human, Animal, Machine

Podcast: Writing is telepathy: AI tools, automation, an intentionally offline life -- conversation with CT Smith

AI Book Club recording, notes, and transcript for Ethan Mollick's Co-Intelligence

Episode 3: Documentation theater and the acceleration paradox (Podcast with Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti and Tom Johnson)

Is AI an alien intelligence? AI Book Club discussion on Yuval Noah Harari's Nexus

Recording of AI book club session of 'Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation', by Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst

MCP servers and the role tech writers can play in shaping AI capabilities and outcomes -- podcast with Fabrizio Ferri Beneditti and Anandi Knuppel

How AI is changing the role of technical writers to 'context curators' and 'content directors'

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 about Kai-fu Lee's AI Superpowers