Breaking into the tech writing job market

[Stuart Burnfield]

Gene Kim-Eng said:
> My experience has been that most over-written documentation is
> the result of writers not having sufficient technical knowledge
> of the product and its users' needs to be able to look at input
> received from developers with a critical eye toward what the user
> is really going to require for a specific operation and cut out
> or move what is unnecessary.

My second Cooper quote of the day:
"No matter how cool your interface is, less of it would be better."

He was talking about UI design but it applies equally to documentation.

Stuart