Ignorance is Strength

A talk given at Write the Docs NA 2014 in Portland, on how ignorance can be a strength for documentarians.

Transcript

1. ignorance is strength writing documentation by learning as you go~ Amalia Hawkins, MongoDB
2. graduated in may, started work in august. enthusiastic! who am i?
4. tl;dr? lack of internal documentation causes growing pains.
5. lesson one: write anything -- wrong things are better than no things.
7. lesson two: find your allies. other people are confused too.
8. lesson three: spread out the work. content, format, critique.
10. what’s next? open source <3
11. ignorance is a weakness ignorance is strength
12. questions? thanks for listening :)