If my coworkers were grinding through stuff that took them 20 hours, I'd be all "I work smart, not hard" with accompanying snarky eye roll, and I'd assume I cou

If my coworkers were grinding through stuff that took them 20 hours, I'd be all "I work smart, not hard" with accompanying snarky eye roll, and I'd assume I could bust through an equivalent work load in four hours and still look like a goddamn superhero. And sometimes I could, so, hey, validation! This was me for a lot of years, then like the author I joined a really high performing team. Those guys (all men) cranked out a lot of code. I even told my wife, I wasn't sure if I could keep up. I really had to up my game, but I did find a lot of their code really wasn't the highest quality and they tended to write more code than they needed. I learned a lot from the situation, and every team since has been even more low performing. It makes it really easy to excel in the typical, Dilbert, Fortune 500 development team.