A Google search for “job interview tips” yields 3.7 Crore results. Rounded off to the nearest five Zeros, that’s 37,500,000 search results. So I’m not going to kid myself or you that what follows is something that you’ve never heard or read before. This is stuff I’ve gleaned from my experience.
Before we begin, remember that [...]

I’m back after more than a month. Much water has flowed…okay chuck that! Grrr…what did I want to say? Oh well…I don’t know. I most definitely wanted to say something but it escapes me now…
Oh yeah! Here goes.
Before we begin, the previous para is a very substandard illustration of a fancy technique of [...]

The following is my rather presumptuous professional credo.

Love your job and if possible, your company.
Get the job done, titles subserve the job you do.
When trouble erupts, focus on resolving it instead of looking to blame.
If the work environment sucks, try to enliven it, then live with it, else get out quickly!
Critique the work, not the [...]

As a technical writer, I have progressively been led to, hand-held, encouraged, and brainwashed to believe in the Style Guide as the Holy Grail. I was told that periodic sippings from the Grail was both the cure for all my writing ills and the perfect diet to improve my writing health.

Of writing, what else?
It was once believed that nobody could teach writing. It was a gift you were born with. Great writers were born, not made. And such other generalizations. While there’s a grain of truth in each of these, experience has taught me that writing can be taught.
I wrote the way I [...]

Minimalism is one of the latest terms being bandied around in the world of technical writing. Most folks trace its origins to the result of years of research in cognitive studies and learning.

Hemingway. Enough said.

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.