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Below you’ll find a lot of random thoughts related to documentation. I’ll build this into something cohesive someday. Until then, enjoy the chaos.

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To grow as an organization, you need to write things down.

Failure to do so will make life difficult. Not just for you, but for everyone else.

Spoken word is ephemeral. Written word is lasting.

There’s an old proverb. At it’s root is documentation.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

The three curves

Organizations mature their sharing of information along three curves.

These curves are overlapping. Since these require mindset shifts, it’s not likely that you’ll see radical jumps. Rather, it’s progressive steps. (After all, each reflects additional levels of buy in. And likely in larger and larger groups).

1. Spoken word, one to one.
2. Spoken word, in a shared space.
3. Written word, in a notebook.
4. Written word, in a shared space.
5. Digitized word, in a personal space.
6. Digitized word, in a shared space.
   1. That is unstructured
   2. That is structured
   3. That is structured and metadata driven