Writing for developers with Karl Hughes

In this episode, Karl Hughes, founder and CEO of Draft.dev, shares

• Starting his career, working with startups as a software engineer
• Taking on engineering management and CTO roles
• Covid triggering a shift to get into technical writing for developers
• How to think of documentation for developers, as an intentional activity
• His views on Agile approaches and documentation and the need to right size the documentation
• How the product maturity influences the need and depth of documentation
• Why writing is the most effective way to document and communicate
• His thoughts on effectiveness of visual communication
• Writing for a diverse audience and the role of video for communicating with developers
• Importance of reviews and feedback for greater effectiveness of written content
• How he got interested in writing 
• If writing is a teachable or learnable skill
• How he balances and manages his time between the maker and manager modes of working
• His experience with Shark Tank, when his company was invited to pitch at Shark Tank
• Working with a global, distributed team of software engineers
• Whether audio has a role to play as a medium for communicating with developers
• His career tips for getting into writing

Bio: Karl Hughes is a former software engineer and CTO in Chicago. He is now the Founder and CEO of Draft.dev, a specialized technical marketing agency that creates content designed to reach software engineers.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarlLHughes

Draft.dev writer application: https://draft.dev/write