You pick on the one thing that dilutes your point. Carmack is known and famous for developing software -- not for dicking around on Stack Overflow, etc. He wa

You pick on the one thing that dilutes your point. Carmack is known and famous for developing software -- not for dicking around on Stack Overflow, etc. He was famous long before he ever gave a talk -- and initially he was terrible at talks -- but he was always a 10x developer. I've worked with some amazing developers who've created unbelievable products that have never written a book, a paper, given a talk, or done a conference. They are probably the silent majority of 10x developers.