>but stories are about defining a context and a progression from that context to a more advanced state. Exactly. Starting a story 80% in makes it nonsensical.

>but stories are about defining a context and a progression from that context to a more advanced state. Exactly. Starting a story 80% in makes it nonsensical. If your engineering docs are nonsensical if you open them at 80% you have failed as a technical writer. >most of the time you want to know in which context the technology has been developed and which problems it can solve. ABSOLUTELY NOT. Imagine your dish washer manual going over the history of dish washers interspersed with comments about how it functions. That would be insane, useless and unreasonable.