I’m at AWS and the doc focus meetings is my favorite cultural force of working there. I was surprised to see the article leave out the benefit to author of forc

I’m at AWS and the doc focus meetings is my favorite cultural force of working there. I was surprised to see the article leave out the benefit to author of forcing them to clarify their thoughts and get evidence to support their claims. I am always way more prepared to discuss and defend my proposals after writing a document, even if I thought my idea was pretty clear before writing it. A drawback, if you want to call it that, is it can be exhausting. Both on the consumption side when you have to review lots of deeply technical and nuanced things all day and be on your A game, or in having to constantly write documents. As I’ve gotten more senior it has taken the largest part of my time now. It also seems like a lazy answer from management can be “well write that up in a doc and we can review”. Feels like you can’t discuss anything without a doc sometimes. But still love it, net net.