Mailbag: How to encourage good documents rather than perfect documents?

A great question on Staff Engineer that I received recently:

When you’re writing docs (and reviewing them) I really resonated with the idea of pushing for them to be good and not perfect. Was curious how you go about fostering that culture beyond yourself? I feel like since we’ve shifted to a remote culture, doc grooming has reached an all time high. Also curious if that’s something you’ve felt at all?

There’s an increasingly pervasive belief that written communication is the “obviously best” ...