Key Concepts
- Communication Evolution: From one-to-one to many-to-many, enabled by the internet.
- Power of Documentation: Documentation extends ideas beyond individuals, allowing for collaborative growth and development.
- Tools for Scale: Modern tools like GitHub and Read the DocsRead the Docs revolutionized documentation by automatically building and hosting docs from Git repositories, making it trivial to maintain up-to-date documentation alongside code. facilitate version-controlled, collaborative documentation.
Call to Action
- Expand Beyond Tech: Use documentation to develop ideas in humanities, arts, and sciencesThis vision anticipates platforms like GitBook, Notion, and Obsidian that democratize knowledge creation across disciplines, not just software development..
- Build and Improve Tools: Encourage competition and innovation in documentation tools.