I don't really agree with this laundry list of 'best practices for every engineer to be a good cog'. I've seen whole chunks of big commercial operating systems

I don't really agree with this laundry list of 'best practices for every engineer to be a good cog'. I've seen whole chunks of big commercial operating systems that are basically written by one anti-social guy. And our lore is full of examples of individual contributors who weren't team players; often, they were one-man armies. Tto my mind, _those_ are the 10x devs. They are the devs that your startup should hire... ... because otherwise if you hire the cogs that match this article's list, you are going to need 10x or 100x as many devs, and they'll probably only manage to make a mediocre shopping cart and nothing else works. But, look on the bright side, it'll be CIed up the whatsit and use all the latest cloud stuff and untested frameworks, so all is good on the resumes ;)