https://sunshowers.io/tags/culture/Recent content in Culture on sunshowersHugoen-us© Rain 2020-present. Licensed under <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0">CC BY-NC-SA 4.0</a> unless marked otherwise. <!--# Theme based on Terminal by panr, and used under the MIT license: https://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-terminal -->Thu, 12 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sunshowers.io/posts/glue-work/Thu, 12 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sunshowers.io/posts/glue-work/<p>Sean Goedecke, <a href="https://www.seangoedecke.com/glue-work-considered-harmful/"><em>Glue work considered harmful</em></a> (emphasis here, and in the rest of the quotes, in original):</p> <blockquote> <p>So why doesn’t glue work get you promoted, if it’s so crucial to shipping projects? Are companies stupid? Are they deliberately leaving value on the table? No, I don’t think so. Companies don’t reward glue work because <strong>they don’t want you prioritizing it.</strong> And they don’t want you prioritizing it because they want you shipping features. Glue work is hard. If you’re capable of doing glue work well, they want you to use that ability to deliver projects instead of improving general efficiency.</p> </blockquote>