099: The Knowledge You Possess with Stephanie Morillo

Greater Than Code

In this episode, Stephanie Morillo talks about content strategy, technical writing, organizing and optimizing company internal systems, and that you need to give yourself more credit for the things you’ve already accomplished! Panelists: Jamey Hampton | John K. Sawers | Coraline Ada Ehmke Guest Starring: Stephanie Morillo: @radiomorillo | stephaniemorillo | #WOCinTechChat Show Notes: 02:40 – Stephanie’s Superpower: Intellectual Curiosity 13:06 – On Being a Content PM, Technical Writer, and Ruby Together Core Team Member @azureadvocates Ruby Together 19:44 – Validating Open Source Software Contribution Write the Docs Slack Community 24:27 – Filtering Feedback 28:14 – The Importance of Content Strategy Greater Than Code Episode 088: The Safety 2 Dance with Steven Shorrock 43:24 – Don’t Minimize Yourself! (Psst: You’re awesome!) One of the best (and worst) things about working in tech is how easy it is to get excited by something and wanting to learn it—right up until your brain tells you you're not doing enough, work harder, leading you to get overwhelmed with just how much there is to learn. ? — Stephanie Morillo (@radiomorillo) September 24, 2018 Coraline's low-friction task management system Want to help keep us a weekly show, buy and ship you swag, and bring us to conferences near you? Support us via Patreon! Or tell your organization to send sponsorship inquiries to [e-mail]. Reflections: John: Understanding the teams you’re working with better. Coraline: The power of dreams. Jamey: The value of being able to know when people in your life are interacting with you in good faith. Stephanie: Figuring out the “why”. RubyMe Are you Greater Than Code? Submit guest blog posts to [e-mail] Please leave us a review on iTunes! This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode. To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and interactive transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Transcript: JAMEY: Hello everyone and welcome to Episode 99 of Greater Than Code. We are so close to 100. It's very exciting. I am one of your hosts, Jamey Hampton and I am here with another one of your host, John K Sawers. JOHN: Thanks Jamey and I am here with Coraline Ada Ehmke. CORALINE: That's a blatant lie and you know it. JOHN: I only lie when I'm on a podcast. CORALINE: Okay. I am happy to introduce our guests today, Stephanie Morillo. Stephanie is a content PM at Microsoft and an empress of documentation at Ruby Together. She first got into tech in 2012 when a fellow Dominican developer from the Bronx taught her how to code. In the time sense, she's been employed at various startups working at the intersection where developers and communicators meet. In 2015, she co-founded the Women of Color in Tech Chat with Christina Morillo and through the initiative, they released a collection of hundreds of free stock images of women of color technologists, which I have used to my slides. Thank you. She's spoken at various tech conferences, written a number pieces on the tech industry. For Model View Culture, serves as a copy editor for an O'Reilly title, is guest editing an upcoming issue of the Recompiler Magazine and is currently a member of the Bundler core team. She's also finishing up a master’s degree in user experience design. Stephanie is passionate about open source, good food, reading fiction and constantly learning. Well, I can say Stephanie that your bio isn't quite up to the caliber of people that we usually have on the show. We like people who actually do things and it sounds li...