Kate sounds off on 2025
In this solo episode, I share my latest content update progress. I also reflect on all of 2025 hosting this podcast, offering lessons learned about tech writing and myself alongside gratitude to this year’s awesome guests and listeners like you.
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I’ve continued my work to update the KnowledgeOwl Support Knowledge Base to align with major navigation and UI changes we rolled out in December 2024. I’ve finished my official punchdown list and am working through some spot checks and searches to verify I didn’t overlook anything in that list.
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I’ve continued my work to update the KnowledgeOwl Support Knowledge Base to align with major navigation and UI changes we rolled out in December 2024. I’ve finished my official punchdown list and am working through some spot checks and searches to verify I didn’t overlook anything in that list.
This episode is my final solo episode of 2025, so it felt appropriate to reflect a bit on how this year has gone. I share seven lessons about tech writers and tech writing I’ve distilled from the year:
- Tech writers are really really really not-boring humans.
- We like to learn stuff and we’re more or less always learning.
- We’re always adapting.
- We know a lot of random stuff and it’s not always limited to technical domains.
- We’re generous with our knowledge.
- Very few of us came into this profession in a linear or “traditional” way.
- Care and empathy underlie a lot of what we do.
I also share some lessons I learned about myself and offer a ton of gratitude, most especially to the awesome roster of amazing, talented people who graced me with interviews this year, and also to all the folks behind the scenes who make this possible. We are, slowly but surely, building a solid not-boring community, and I look forward to another year of doing the same!
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Kate Mueller
Kate is a documentarian and knowledge base coach based in Midcoast Maine. When she's not writing software documentation or advising on knowledge management best practices, she's out hiking and foraging with her dog. Connect with her on LinkedIn, Bluesky, or Write the Docs Slack.
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Chad Timblin
Chad is the Head of Operations for The Not-Boring Tech Writer. He’s also the Executive Assistant to the CEO & Friend of Felines at KnowledgeOwl, the knowledge base software company that sponsors The Not-Boring Tech Writer. Some things that bring him joy are 😼 cats, 🎶 music, 🍄 Nintendo, 📺 Hayao Miyazaki’s films, 🍃 Walt Whitman’s poetry, 🌊 Big Sur, and ☕️ coffee. Connect with him on LinkedIn or Bluesky.
