Glue work considered harmful
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Glue work considered harmful
That is, we’ve traded our craftsmenship for management. We now are less immersed in the exact pieces we’re putting together and more interested in the outcome of the work. To us, programming has now become a means to an end, instead of an end in itself.
Manager vs Craftsman — Derrick Persson
How much of our work exists because we ‘think’ we have to do it?
Matt Klein • Self-Sabotaging Innovation: The Art of Doing Dumb Shit
The key to high work satisfaction — if you are a true craftsperson / builder in a mid-sized startup or a large company — is to choose to do more work every day that will directly improve your product, business, and team, while avoiding most of the optics work that is actually designed to make middle managers feel smart / useful / busy and in realit... See more
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