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The whole discussion is derailed anyhow. Most knee-jerk reactions I've read so far seem to deny the existence of any productivity difference between individuals
by emsy 7y ago
The whole discussion is derailed anyhow. Most knee-jerk reactions I've read so far seem to deny the existence of any productivity difference between individuals at all or claim that those 10x engineers must be so efficient because they're anti-social assholes.
- andrewstuart 7y agoWell the 10X developers I have know have mostly been pretty normal nice people. One of them wasn't even super interested in development outside working hours - he just came to work, seemed to knock it out of the park and go home. I'm not saying he wasn't interested at all - he was mildly interested outside work.
- Nasrudith 7y agoThat is probably part of why he is 10x - he works at peak efficency instead of masochistic "long hours mean dedication!" cults which forget the whole damn point is actual productivity.
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- twblalock 7y agoThis makes sense, because long hours can be a consequence of low productivity. The most productive engineers I know work normal weekday hours and spend their time outside of work on other hobbies.
- james_s_tayler 7y agoYeah. I find it an odd response. My assumption is it's normally distributed, so you'll find a sliver of people who just (for one reason or another) blow by the rest. You'll find a lot of average developers. You'll find a tiny minority of people who somehow wound up in industry and you can't for the life you figure out how they made it 15 years.
- telltruth 7y agoThese days it is very politically incorrect to say that someone is 10X. The LinkedIn is full of profiles with people whose job titles with words like “leader”, “mentor”, “coach”, “team player”. The only thing that is usually missing in their resume is ability to write code or do things that requires actual technical skills. These people eventually show up as your CTOs, architects and they want their people to be team player, mentor, coach, leader - everything other than actual technical work. These types usually hate the concept of 10x devs and deny their existence. I think they have successfully relabeled 10x devs as “brilliant jerks” and “social assholes”. We sometime forget that our industry in not made by these so called LinkedIn mentors, coaches and leaders but likes of Steve Wozniak, Brenden Eich and Ken Thompson.