THE SURPRISING POWER OF DOCUMENTATION

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Documentation can be boring to write, but its long-term value cannot be understated. Each hour invested into documentation at a company can save up to a hundred productivity hours as a result across the company. Building a documentation-first culture is extremely important for a team to scale well and for developers to stay productive as a codebase gets larger and larger. However, documentation is not a silver bullet or a substitute to human interaction, which has nuances that cannot be transferred through the written word.