A README file is just an introduction to the system, it's a part of the system, in fact the most trivial part. If you're talking about a README for your life, then your birth certificate (or some similar tangible statement that "YOU ARE HERE ->(X)" is enough for a README isn't it??

The real trick is what happens when you *use* the system, run it thru the paces and realize how it works in ways that no one else even imagined, or suggested, or anticipated. Then do you not begin to see the "words" *behind* the readme, and the programming *behind* the code.

There is no spoon.