Let me rephrase. Let's say you're writing textbooks instead of code. You need Ivy League PhD's to write grad school textbooks, but not grammar school ones. Here

Let me rephrase. Let's say you're writing textbooks instead of code. You need Ivy League PhD's to write grad school textbooks, but not grammar school ones. Here are two crappy scenarios I was thinking about: - You choose to write grammar school textbooks just so you can hire cheaper writers. - Or worse, you're required to write grad school textbooks but you still hire cheaper replaceable writers. We are conflating skill with performance, but the 10x theory (IIRC) is that they are correlated, or at least can be given the proper motivation. Team players are always better than singletons, so let's assume there's no correlation there (which may be a stretch, sure.)