Weird article. Was this written by a human? Having been in the content biz[1] for two decades now, I'll chip in my two cents: domain knowledge is king. What do

Weird article. Was this written by a human? Having been in the content biz[1] for two decades now, I'll chip in my two cents: domain knowledge is king. What does this mean? You have to know how to use the product, or you need to bring some good knowledge about how the product works. The tools you can learn, because they're going to be different everywhere, even if they're using the same "spec". This industry has a set of "Industry Standard" tools that have been, in general (for the last fifteen years or so), a hot garbage fire. An awful lot of advice is given to get good at Tool X. That'll unlock the World of Tech Writing for you! Just plunk down a few thousand dollars, and you can be Enterprise Ready[2]. No. Far more important, if you want to get schooled on tools, is to learn the formals of Semantics, Change Management, Config Management, Computational Linguistics, and Systems Engineering. A lot of specs written in this field are obviously written from a non-technical perspective, and it implodes pubs departments right and left. With the theory, you can spot these traps before they trap you and your entire team. [1] Admittedly in hard industries [2] Just ignore the fact that the vendor is tied to a particular program, and when the program inevitably goes to its final reward your multi-million dollar system will have its support evaporate like morning dew.