RE: The coming predominance of user experience andtechnicalcommunications

["Dori Green" <dgreen -at- associatedbrands -dot- com>]

Maybe "asking questions" isn't as important a skill/characteristic as "insatiable curiosity".  Before I worked in dry food packaging, I just assumed like most other people that the flavored modified petroleum byproduct I sprinkle into my morning coffee would look, taste, and act the same as the stuff that came out of a similar bottle the day before.  It turns out that actually making that happen is an intensely complicated and fascinating process, and so are many other things in daily life -- and sometimes I'm getting paid to hunker down and figure out how that gets done!  What a hoot!

I'm also a huge fan of jigsaw and crossword puzzles.  Maybe those should be on that "might make a good tech writer" checksheet, too.

Dori Green
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