This is about hitting the high notes, as Joel Spolsky put it in his [post]. A lot of people are good software engineers and can wrote good software. To get Jef

This is about hitting the high notes, as Joel Spolsky put it in his [post]. A lot of people are good software engineers and can wrote good software. To get Jeff Deans that write revolutionary software, we don't yet have a better method than training people in these abstract, very hard problems, making them compete and hoping for the best. As much as we software engineers / computer scientists believe we are special snowflakes, this exact same method is applied to most STEM PhD to professor tracks, mathematics, classic music instrument players, [athletes], and what have you. [post] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/07/25/hitting-the-high-notes/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/07/25/hitting-the-high-n... [athletes] http://rittersp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Chambliss-Mundanity-of-Excellence.pdf http://rittersp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Chambliss-Mun... [musicians] http://www.nytimes.com/images/blogs/freakonomics/pdf/DeliberatePractice(PsychologicalReview).pdf http://www.nytimes.com/images/blogs/freakonomics/pdf/Deliber...