A fact I notice in a lot of teams and orgs, valid for both this and the 'heroes' discussion: Every organisational silo has,in the long term, exactly one 10x en

A fact I notice in a lot of teams and orgs, valid for both this and the 'heroes' discussion: Every organisational silo has,in the long term, exactly one 10x engineer, a.k.a hero. If there is no hero, the organisational silo will fail unless someone cares enough to take the role. If there is a hero, the need for a second one disappears. If a hero falls away, you'll have a few months of chaos after which a new hero appears. People will naturally give problems and hard projects to the best available person, and generally people agree who that us. So one person with a slight edge gets all the training and quickly gets much better. Heros are a consequence of organizational barriers. Update: That last part is inexact. Heros are a consequence of knowledge barriers.