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Specifically in the software development field, a good engineer increases the productivity of all other engineers in a way that allows engineers to increase the
by dartos 3y ago
Specifically in the software development field, a good engineer increases the productivity of all other engineers in a way that allows engineers to increase the productivity of each other in a compounding way.
A “10x” engineer is worth a compounding amount more than their peers.
I don’t think that holds for every field.
- adrianovaroli 3y agoJorge Luis Borges colleagues at the National Library forced him to go slower because he could catalogue books in a fraction of the time they needed. So yeah, if you're an absolute genius, you don't need a union. Everybody else does. Your common people colleagues do.
- dartos 3y agoYeah, that’s the trade off with many collectivist ideas. They optimize for equality, which necessarily hurts the highest performers (in one way or another) and benefits the lower ones (in many ways) Like anything, it’s a trade off