>5. If you look around in indie circles, you'll find many companies where one person does legal, marketing, and all product development. I'd guess those are the

>5. If you look around in indie circles, you'll find many companies where one person does legal, marketing, and all product development. I'd guess those are the 10x-ers who value freedom higher than money. This point and to some degree your #4 point are really key: Being a potentially great worker* is relative to the company, product, project, IE: the environment. An indie may not have been a very successful developer at BigCo, but when faced with sink or swim, will strive to find ways to be ultra productive. * I didn't write developer, because I've seen this phenomenon with testers, with technical consultants, with project managers...