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Skip to contentHeidi WaterhouseWriter, Speaker, DocumentarianHomeSpeaker bioRecent talksFurther ThoughtsSpeaking ResourcesPosts Jan19Learning out loud What have I learned from taking elocution lessons? Oct04When you stare into the blank page, it stares back at you I didn’t write The Great American Novel during the pandemic. I’m good with that. Instead, I worked with an amazing team to write the best book we could on how to do technical writing when you are not a technical writer. I finally believe this book is really real, because look, there are pre-order buttons!… Aug30In which I am cranky about the urban/rural divide I just came back from a weeks-long trip to the American West. It was amazing, gorgeous. You know what all this beauty has in common? Besides mostly being protected wild areas? Zero bars of cell phone signal. Or maybe like, two bars, depending on whether there was a mesa in the way. We drove almost… Jun08Lady Conference Speaker: Home Studio Edition This is the post about setting up a home studio that I wish I had been able to read before setting up my home studio. May21Semantic meaning is everywhere Semantic labeling could make our world better, if we valued it. Even our conference slides. Mar22Your DevRel pipeline You may already have the DevRel resources you need — check out your support team. Jan08Extremely Online People I’m writing this the night of January 6, 2021. It won’t be posted tonight, because it’s not what anyone should be paying attention to. It’s useful to me to write something else, think about something other than a coup, a putsch. I am Extremely Online. If you follow me on Twitter, you are already aware… Dec30The University of YouTube This week, I learned how to roll out potica dough thin enough to see the flowers on your tablecloth through it. I went from knowing vaguely that engines have carburetors to disassembling my snowthrower and repairing it. Other things I’ve used it for are video game hints for when I’m stuck, adjusting bike disc brakes,… Dec15From the editorial scrap heap In 2020, we got some excellent examples of how different approaches to planning, capacity management, and emergency response can make a real difference between a public-health problem and a slow-motion mass-casualty event. Dec01Sharpen the axe with personas I haven’t been writing much about writing lately, because I have a big! new! exciting! project coming up. I’ll tell you more about that later. However, this weekend I ended up in a twitter conversation about how I get myself unstuck when a piece of writing isn’t working, and I thought I’d share. Abraham Lincoln…123…19Next »Load MoreUpcoming appearancesVelocity BerlinMinneapolis DevOps MeetupDeliveryConfBlog categories7fights (10)Best practices (48)Book review (5)burnout (1)Crosspost (11)Dev Advocacy (40)docsfordevs (1)Freelancing (12)Industry (27)Interviewing (4)Lady Conference Speaker (66)LaunchDarkly (22)Life (49)Personal (5)Speaker Resource (9)Speaking (104)Stickers (5)Talk writeup (16)Tools (10)Uncategorized (11)Video (44)wfh (5)Writing (4)Recent talks The Lead Developer (London): 12/10 Good Doggo: The Power of Positive Transformation July 3, 2019 DevOpsDays Copenhagen: Every Scar a Story May 9, 2019 DevOne: Tinkertoys, Microservices, and Feature Management May 9, 2019 Tinkertoys, Microservices, and Feature Management (ScaleConf 2019) April 16, 2019 > View more talksThanks for your message! I’ll be in touch soon.HomeSpeaker bioRecent talksFurther ThoughtsSpeaking Resources© 2022 Heidi Waterhouse.Website by Flax DigitalScroll To Top