Documenting your work isn't admin, it's career insurance

Most people treat documentation like a tax. Something you do after the real work, when you still have energy, which you rarely do. Then a problem repeats, a handover breaks, an automation attempt fails, or a new joiner gets stuck, and suddenly everyone wishes the work had been written down properly. This is the fundamental divide between reactive firefighting and proactive architecture. The operational hero executes work brilliantly but leaves no trace, forcing the next person to rediscover...