Your brain…​still a tyrant; still holding your ideas hostage. But like all computers, your brain can be hacked. Let’s once again set those ideas free by coercing your brain to yield to your creative will.

After a popular session last year, I’m back to share with you 7 more techniques (and perhaps a few to review) that I use to hack my brain to write fluently. Centered around the AsciiDoc markup language, we’ll explore new tricks with sentence-per-line, keeping content DRY, writing while not writing, applying content types, and more!

These tricks you can play on your brain can help keep you in writing flow and the cursor racing across the screen. After attending this session, the blank page will no longer be your nemesis, but instead your oyster!

Script

First, ensure you have the following installed:

1. Node.js

2. Gulp CLI

   $ npm install -g gulp-cli

3. Ruby >= 2

   $ rvm use 2.3.1 --install

4. Bundler

   $ gem install bundler

Next, install dependencies (if not already installed by the generator):

Finally, build and serve the presentation!