I love this description so much. This is exactly what I would expect a coworker to follow. Not being someone that exists to extract as much value from their tea

I love this description so much. This is exactly what I would expect a coworker to follow. Not being someone that exists to extract as much value from their team mates or expect them to work as much as they do. But to be fair, if someone followed every item in that list I would consider them more than a 1x engineer. Let's define a 10x engineer as someone who ships and has a disproportionate amount of impact compared to its coworkers. I'd say most 10x engineers I've met had a real hard time detaching from work and spent most of their waking hours working. This is definitely not a life most people should follow, but I can understand it. I've also seen 10x engineers who become so toxic that people around them end up leaving. Another example, which is depicted in The Phoenix Project, is the 10x engineer that hoards information and thus cannot be replaced or scaled. There's a lot of archetypes for 10x engineers, and not all of them are good for a team.