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title: Curse of knowledge with Tom Johnson
date: 2015-07-08
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description: A truly great and fun conversation with prolific and influential technical writer Tom Johnson. Tom joins us from Silicon Valley to talk about his interesting path to technical communication, failed Career Day booths, being a leader in techcomm, content management systems, DITA, static site generators, and much more.
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> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://edmar.sh/llms.txt).

## Mentioned during this episode

- [Tom's web site - I'd rather be writing](http://idratherbewriting.com/)
- [Tom on Twitter](http://twitter.com/tomjohnson)
- [Tom's review of our podcast](http://idratherbewriting.com/2015/03/23/new-series-jekyll-versus-dita/)
- [Why no one stopped by my technical writing booth at career fair day](http://idratherbewriting.com/2015/05/31/realizations-from-career-fair-what-i-lost/)
- [Tom on finding time to write](http://idratherbewriting.com/2010/12/22/why-im-so-visible/)
- [Jekyll static site generator](http://jekyllrb.com/)
- [Liquid templating language](http://liquidmarkup.org/)
- [Confluence wiki](https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence)
- [Adobe RoboHelp](http://www.adobe.com/products/robohelp.html)
- [Madcap Flare](http://liquidmarkup.org/)
- [oXygen XML Editor](http://oxygenxml.com/)

- [Protopage RSS feed aggregator](http://protopage.com/)
- [Inoreader RSS feed aggregator](https://www.inoreader.com/)
- [Feedly RSS feed aggregator](http://feedly.com/)
- [Salesforce Knowledge](http://www.salesforce.com/service-cloud/features/knowledge-base/)
- [DITA module for Drupal CMS (in development)](https://groups.drupal.org/dita-tech-comm-cms)
- [Karen McGrane on "blobs"](http://karenmcgrane.com/2014/10/15/content-in-a-zombie-apocalypse/)
- [Markdown formatting syntax language](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markown/)
- [DocPad text editor](http://docpad.org)
- [WebStorm text editor](https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/)
- [GitHub](http://www.github.com/webstorm/)
- [Blubrry podcasting plugin for WordPress](https://www.blubrry.com/)
- [contentcontent.info](http://contentcontent.info "content content dot info")
- [Ed Marsh on Twitter](http://twitter.com/edmarsh)