> When new employees start work on something, they want the back story. I've been working recently with a new hire and it was quite interesting to see how valu

> When new employees start work on something, they want the back story. I've been working recently with a new hire and it was quite interesting to see how valuable the documentation that I wrote was for him to get up to speed. TBH I was quire reluctant to writing, probably because of trauma with college English courses that made me feel like I was terrible at it and thus should stick to writing code... But recently the importance of writing, not just technical documentation, but design documents, explaining historical reasons why things are the way they are, proposals for new projects/technologies/improvements/refactoring, all of those have a really big impact in whether things move forward or not. Same thing with asking for promotions or expressing concerns... I guess all I'm saying is, I've experienced how important is writing and investing a bit of time to get better at it does pays off!