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Re:John Carmack: Career Advice by st1x7 on Friday December 18, 2020 @09:36AM (#25467464)
> My suggestion is to find gaps that aren't integration efforts, if possible, that are instead extension efforts.

Yes! This can go even further and the technical integration work can easily slip into soft/people/team/project/management integration. Here is a talk which warns against doing this kind of glue work too early in your career:

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KClAPipnKqw

Summary article: https://noidea.dog/glue

Re:John Carmack: Career Advice by Frost1x on Friday December 18, 2020 @11:42AM (#25468815)
Excellent video and summary, thank you for the links.

I explain this same concept to people at less software savvy businesses frequently, so it's nice to have an external reference to point to. Going to borrow her nomenclature.