The uber-importance of docs

Which is more important, software or the documentation that makes that software more usable and useful? Framed that way, it would be reasonable to assume both creators should make roughly the same, given similar seniority/geography/etc. Reasonable, but incorrect. Software developers may not make the fabled $3 million a year but, on balance, they tend to make a lot more than the folks writing docs that make their code approachable.

It’s time that we changed this—and not out of some hazy notion of fairness. No, you’re going to want to pay your docs writers more once you realize just how much value they create and unlock.

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