Just by chance, after writing
yesterday's post about a somewhat involved task, I noticed that Sunday's
NASA's APOD was about the Antikythera Mechanism. There were techniques used in that device that were soon lost and not re-invented for another 1700+ years. Look, if something's worth figuring out, it's worth documenting at the very least, and quite possibly worth teaching other interested parties about in a direct, hands-on manner. Also it's quite likely that you'll be back at those notes for a quick walk-through before making repairs or jumping into a related future project, so even doing it for yourself is reason enough. (Publish the results anyway, because you never know.)
Logbooks, journals, memorandum reports, videos, blogs, apprenticeships, grad school, etc.: They're what separates us from the ancients with their expensive penchant for repeatedly losing knowledge.
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