Main takeaway: write more documentation and end your day by updating the documentation (reflecting).
At least that's how I read the article. I've personally experienced a significant benefit from changing my software development habits to always writing documentation first. A sort of hybrid TDD approach where I try to stub everything out in either comments or tests before writing code. It's just a shift in viewing the documentation as a critical part of the end product. The goal being to create great documentation that happens to also have functioning code vs the other way around.
This approach is especially useful for entrepreneurs who also code. As long as I have good documentation, I can replace myself as a developer pretty easily. But if I just write code and no docs, I'm effectively just building technical debt.
At least that's how I read the article. I've personally experienced a significant benefit from changing my software development habits to always writing documentation first. A sort of hybrid TDD approach where I try to stub everything out in either comments or tests before writing code. It's just a shift in viewing the documentation as a critical part of the end product. The goal being to create great documentation that happens to also have functioning code vs the other way around.
This approach is especially useful for entrepreneurs who also code. As long as I have good documentation, I can replace myself as a developer pretty easily. But if I just write code and no docs, I'm effectively just building technical debt.