>>So, the thing is, I'd argue a focus on outcome with good technical skills to deliver it, makes you the 1% developer. I didn't read the article the same way a

>>So, the thing is, I'd argue a focus on outcome with good technical skills to deliver it, makes you the 1% developer. I didn't read the article the same way as many here did - my take was that he was talking about the 99% of developers who don't need the newest/leading-edge technologies because they are not solving for those problems (massive scaling for example), because the business they are working with/for simply will never need to worrying about that. I didn't take it to mean that some of those same developers solving those '99%' problems, are not individually top 1% developers - you can be a top 1% developer imo, and still used tried-and-tested technology that is consider 'old' or boring. Using the right tools, does not make one a top 1% developer; a top 1% developer will shine no matter what tools that need to use; they just use them better.