On publishing something that your employer could read by t_winkler
I'm writing essays about what it costs to spend your career making software comprehensible to people who have no interest in understanding it. This is not a hostile subject. I don't name companies or clients. But the subject matter is plainly legible to anyone who knows what I do for a living. I work for a company that would, I think, be unbothered by the general project of a technical writer writing essays about technical writing. They're not paranoid people. But the specific argument I'm developing, that the clarity we produce for our users often serves to mask rather than reveal the true complexity of the systems they depend on, that is probably not something they'd enjoy seeing in my byline. I'm not planning to publish under a pseudonym. That would change the nature of the work. But I'm aware that I'm writing into a constraint that most writers don't have, or don't have in exactly this form. Anyone here has navigated a similar situation? Writing something honest that your professional life is also implicated in?