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I'd suggest virtually the opposite: a good way to be an outlier is to have reasonably broad knowledge plus being good at learning new stuff, such that when face
by dasmoth 9y ago
I'd suggest virtually the opposite: a good way to be an outlier is to have reasonably broad knowledge plus being good at learning new stuff, such that when faced with a new problem you can quickly bring the right set of skills/technologies/whatever at it.
- jaggederest 9y agoI think "10x" is just bad shorthand. If you want to talk about it from a financial perspective, talk about the rate of return. Can one developer do ten times the work any other developer does during a week? Probably not. Can one developer have a rate of return such that they get ten times more valuable work done? Almost certainly. So developer A delivers 3% improvement per year and developer B delivers 6% improvement per year. Across a career, if you start with 100 units, developer A delivers 245 units at the end, and developer B delivers 2008 units.
- gaius 9y agoThat is less a factor of the person and more of the environment tho'.