Most documentation is written for the person who already knows the answer
증상
There’s a particular failure mode in wikis, READMEs, and internal knowledge bases that nobody names directly: the person writing the doc already knows what they’re documenting. That sounds obvious, but it creates a systematic problem.
원인
it didn’t work. You don’t write down the two words that would have made everything click if someone had said them at the start.
해결법
isn’t “write more” or “make it longer.” It’s writing with a specific person in mind: someone arriving at the thing cold, three months from now, under pressure, with no context.
That requires a kind of deliberate forgetting that’s genuinely hard. You have to actively suppress your own knowledge to imagine what it’s like to not have it.
Which makes good documentation a form of empathy more than a form of expertise.
So the real question isn’t “did you write it down?” It’s “did you write it down for the person who needs it, or for the version of you who already knew?”
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