excellent viewpoint. I can agree with a lot of it, here's my take on it: > It doesn't matter what the label is; any label that attempts to stratify programmers

excellent viewpoint. I can agree with a lot of it, here's my take on it: > It doesn't matter what the label is; any label that attempts to stratify programmers is a "myth". I can agree with this, but the thing is this is true regarding anything nowadays, whatever you say someone, somewhere will find displeasing. the "10x" label however, to my argument, is "10x" worse than other labels such as "star". perhaps you don't take this phrase too literally, but it does sort of "quantify" in people's mind the concept of 1000% productivity, which can be interpreted as unattainable. my goal is to let people accept their mortality - there is some output you can produce which is optimal, 100% or so. it is much more rational to think your output is 10% and you can progress from there. at least in my mind, it is discouraging to say "your 100% is still not nearly enough" I guess the point is - rhetoric speak matters. p.s. I just love sigma-3 programmer. can I get to sigma-5? ;)