"If you don't document it, the next person inherits your confusion—and that next person is often you, six months later, in a different city, wondering why you made the choices you made."
I have cloned repositories where the code ran fine and the README was empty. I have also lived stretches of my life that way: functional on the surface, undocumented underneath. People could interact with me. I could show up, work, laugh, travel, answer messages. But if you asked what I was for—what I needed, what I was building toward, what would break me if mishandled—the answer was buried in commit history no one had time to read.
A README is not a résumé. A résumé is marketing. A README is orientation. It is the file you open first so you do not have to reverse-engineer the entire system before you touch anything.
Everyone needs one for their life.
What a Life README Actually Is
