About

LeafyField is an independent publication launched in November 2024.

Why publish my thoughts?

I retired from technical writing in July 2017. I have always had an interest in writing so I thought I would write and publish articles on topics of interest to me. My interests are broad. They include technology, agriculture, architecture, transportation and the environment. I'm publishing my thoughts primarily for my own benefit, as writing helps me to clarify my thoughts, but hope they will also be of interest to others. They are my personal thoughts and certainly do not provide all the possible views on the topic. It's simply a way for me to put forward my personal perspective and have my say on life.

Brief background

I changed to technical writing about 10 years before my retirement. Before technical writing I worked at a large Australian bank. My later years at the bank involved assisting with the implementation and support of a payment system to allow the bank to not only meet, but benefit from the compliance requirement to move to a system of real time gross payments between banks. This was a very rewarding and successful project.

My technical writing involved analysing and documenting policies, processes, procedures and product information for divisions of large organisations in the banking and finance industry.

Colin Keating