People often misunderstand what it means to get a paper published. Nobody publishes a paper to &quot;disseminate their work.&quot; You can do that perfectly well by making a blog post or posting on arXiv. A published paper is a badge recognizing your contribution to the scientific community. If the lessons I learned from my summer exploits at FooCorp do not constitute a significant scientific discovery, then they&#x27;re not publishable, and justly so.