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Some notes on how to build stuff on the Web
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Chapter idea: Documenting Everything #3

Open stuartpb opened 6 years ago

stuartpb commented 6 years ago

This was/is a big part of the "Foundational" tenet I wrote about in https://github.com/stuartpb/safer-methodology (EDIT: which, a few hours later, became the "Descriptive" and "Comprehensive" tenets of https://github.com/stuartpb/sacred-tenets, which are all-together Foundational).

In the content of Lean Notes, this can be extended out to the notion of having an institutional memory, an understanding of history and context, all that. (Even if the project never expands beyond yourself, it's still useful to document your thoughts at various points in time, to make it easier to retrace steps on anything you might not have written, not recognizing that it was something you maybe should have.)

This also stems from one if the ideas I had a while back that each board could reasonably be turned into a talk / presentation: I was just thinking that a lot of the stuff I've been doing, especially lately (ie. https://github.com/stuartpb/stuartpb.plan) builds off this idea that the easiest work to resume and build off of is work that was well-documented as it was being put together.