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I spent Saturday digging out a basement with my son. The kid was a machine—for sure he did an order of magnitude more than I did. There's your 10x right there.
by gruseom 13y ago
I spent Saturday digging out a basement with my son. The kid was a machine—for sure he did an order of magnitude more than I did. There's your 10x right there. If you can see it with picks, shovels, and a wheelbarrow, it's hardly implausible that you would see it in software.
The research literature on programming productivity sucks, but not because 10x is a myth. It sucks because we have no reliable way of measuring these things.
- falcolas 13y agoAge, physique, motivation and balancing work with rest had nothing to do with it? I'm 10x more productive than my dad at physical labor, but a lot of that is because he's 75 and I'm less than half his age. Doesn't mean I'm any kind of physical labor "rockstar"...
- gruseom 13y agoOf course those things have something to do with it! Who would ever say they didn't?
- alguemoi 13y agoMy mother thinks I'm 10X handsome.
- gruseom 13y agoIf you're accusing me of bias, my vanity would quite have preferred a different outcome :)