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LT Kenzie WoodbridgeWrite the Docs Atlantic 20242024-09-22
Claims that “trying harder” is a brittle response to scarcity and names the mechanism: substitution of effort for time with concrete examples — deadlines…
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Valuing You (Accurately and Completely)Write the Docs Atlantic 20232023-09-10
The talk argues that organizations and people overvalue maker output and undercount other concrete contributions such as meetings, advocacy, maintenance and…
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Long-term Documentation MaintenanceCraft Conference 20212021-06-02
Argues that long term docs survive only when people plus modest tooling cooperate and gives concrete tactics: use self documenting code and linters for…
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Everyone's a player (in a mid-90s MUD)Write the Docs Australia & India 20202020-12-03
Applies Bartle’s four player types to docs, mapping sprout turnip kale broccoli to support desk, explorer, achiever and gatekeeper behaviors and recommending…
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Affective Data Visualization (CW)Write the Docs Prague 20202020-10-18
Minecraft walls model WHO daily situation reports with each block = 200 cases, building one wall per report so the pandemic literally grows line by line and…
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Everyone's a player in a mid 90s MUDdevopsdays Portland 20192019-09-10
Applies Bartle’s 1996 player-type model to real documentation problems at a large post‑secondary IT shop, mapping four personas — Sprout, Turnip, Kale…
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Long-term Documentation MaintenanceDevOpsDays Vancouver 20192019-04-10
Organisation uses an ITSM-backed record system that tracks 584 resources (121 past review) and enforces review cycles to hit a ~90% reviewed target…
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Ignite – Kenzie WoodbridgeDevOpsDays Montreal 20182018-10-10
Maps player-type theory onto documentation work and shows why the most specialized engineers often produce the least docs. Four archetypes become Sprout…
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How to Read Musical Time SignaturesWrite the Docs Portland 20182018-05-06
A time signature is presented as two pieces of data, not a fraction: the top roughly counts beats per bar, the bottom names the beat unit (4 = quarter, 8 =…
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Everyone's a player (in a mid-90s MUD)Write the Docs 20172017-05-14
Claim: applying Player Type Theory to documentation increases contributions by matching strategies to motivations. Practical tools include templates and…
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Tuesday Lightning TalksWrite the Docs North America 20162016-05-22
Timeline: meetups grow from 2013 to dozens — showings now in Boise, Austin, Managua, Galway, London and Berlin — demo of creating a Portland meetup works live…
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