10x engineering is, for the most part, knowing how to avoid 90% of useless efforts due to over-engineering solutions. It has nothing to do with being a dick to

10x engineering is, for the most part, knowing how to avoid 90% of useless efforts due to over-engineering solutions. It has nothing to do with being a dick to work more or alike. I think that what makes all of us 10x sometimes in our programming career is what we do when we are not writing code, but thinking at how to design it.