<aside> 💡 Good documentation = knowledge and skills your audience needs to do a task − your audience's current knowledge and skills

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Determine what your audience needs to learn

Write down a list of everything your target audience needs to learn to accomplish goals. In some cases, the list should hold tasks that the target audience needs to perform

Fit documentation to your audience

Curse of knowledge

Experts often suffer from the curse of knowledge, which means that their expert understanding of a topic ruins their explanations to newcomers. As experts, it is easy to forget that novices don’t know what you already know. Novices might not understand explanations that make passing reference to subtle interactions and deep systems that the expert doesn’t stop to explain.