#documentation

#documentation

This is a lot more serious than your company is admitting. For one thing, it's a huge liability to have an employee get so drunk that you have to physically carry him upstairs. You could have been hurt or you could have hurt him-both of which the company would likely have been liable for. And this isn't the first time something like this has happened. This is when you start documenting absolutely everything.

Research going back almost 100 years finds that when you have a task to complete, you are highly motivated to finish it. It stays active in your memory, and you seek opportunities to get it done. That tendency is normally a good one. But on a break, it is a factor that will drive your mind back to the workplace-even when you're supposed to be relaxing. To give yourself the best chance to chill, see if you can close out key tasks before you leave. At a minimum, reach a good stopping place on tasks so that you don't feel like you have left them incomplete.

Most issues faced by founder-dependent businesses stem from the lack of accessible knowledge for employees. In fact, critical processes, historical insights, and operational know-how are rarely documented, often living in the founder's head, making them the only source of information. Therefore, the most important step in building a self-sufficient organization is to create a knowledge base where every important piece of information is easily accessible to those who need it.

What happened with AWS outage recently is only a brief foreshadow of what might eventually come to pass if this trend continues. Imagine a world where most programmers are primarily LLM prompters with a very shallow understanding of core programming skills or even operational skills pertaining to an app, framework or library. What will we do if a major outage or technical issue occurs then and no person around knows what's really going on?

A technical design document template is a pre-built structure that outlines how a system, feature, or product will function before any code is written.

Refinancing a car loan can help reduce monthly payments or secure better rates, but lenders require documentation to assess borrower reliability.

Documentation can range from manuals to tip sheets; usually, printable resources or interactive PDFs that cover all the essentials of owning the LMS.

To create a barebones Sphinx site, run the command sphinx-quickstart NAME_OF_SITE_FOLDER inside your virtual environment. It will ask you a series of questions.

While writing gets things started, maintenance ensures your team actually trusts and uses the content. Without a clear maintenance strategy, even the best-written docs become outdated and ignored.