I think this thread is not defining ‘greatness’ well enough. If we’re really talking about greatness, there should like 0.5% of HN that fit the bill, or somethi

I think this thread is not defining ‘greatness’ well enough. If we’re really talking about greatness, there should like 0.5% of HN that fit the bill, or something like that across the industry. Reframe the question, who are our Bachs and Beethovens? Were they great because they created a lot of good work fast? Is good even enough? None of that shit defines greatness. Our best developers came from open source. The stuff they made was undeniable. Is being super productive the same as making undeniably useful programs(languages, tools)? Look at our greats and I think you’ll see they made a breed of work that sits outside workplace metrics of productivity, the same way a Hitchcock was genre defining.