I don't agree with the conclusion of the article. This article borrows a lot from Joel Spolsky's "Hitting the High Notes" https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/07

I don't agree with the conclusion of the article. This article borrows a lot from Joel Spolsky's "Hitting the High Notes" https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/07/25/hitting-the-high-notes/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/07/25/hitting-the-high-n... , and for a rebuttal I would look at https://ericsink.com/articles/Choir.html https://ericsink.com/articles/Choir.html IMHO building teams that work together well is far more indicative of success than individual high performers, and as a result the economic impacts will not happen to individual "10X" performers but rather teams, organizations, and companies that can harness the network effects (i.e. what we see right now, where companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, etc. are more dominant than individual people).