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not-a-10xer
11y ago
The 10xer isn't a 10xer because they work 80-hour weeks but because they produce relatively more output of a relatively higher quality in a given time frame, by as much as an order of magnitude, or at least that's how I understand
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not-a-10xer
11y ago
>Engineers’ effectiveness, on the other hand, is hard to measure. We don’t even really know what makes people productive; thus we talk about 10x engineers as though that’s a thing when even the studies that lead to the notion of a 10x en