Yeah … no There is no such thing as a “10x engineer” Which means there is no such thing as a “100x engineer” There *are* engineers who are 10x as good as someone else (at something in particular) … because that is the nature of entire populations That does *NOT*, however, make those folks a “10x engineer” Usain Bolt is a 3x sprinter compared to me (who is not a sprinter – but I *have* done an under 30s 100m before (once)) I get it: “10x engineer” is a convenient Spolsky abstractism – but it is *bad* :: objectively *and* subjectively (ht @erichydrick)

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Yeah … no There is no such thing as a “10x engineer” Which means there is no such thing as a “100x engineer” There *are* engineers who are 10x as good as someone else (at something in particular) … because that is the nature of entire populations That does *NOT*, however, make those folks a …
Continue reading Yeah … no

There is no such thing as a “10x engineer”

Which means there is no such thing as a “100x engineer”

There *are* engineers who are 10x as good as someone else (at something in particular) … because that is the nature of entire populations

That does *NOT*, however, make those folks a “10x engineer”

Usain Bolt is a 3x sprinter compared to me (who is not a sprinter – but I *have* done an under 30s 100m before (once))

I get it: “10x engineer” is a convenient Spolsky abstractism – but it is *bad* :: objectively *and* subjectively

(ht @erichydrick)

#waffle1720 0/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 streak: 8 ⭐ #wafflerookie https://t.co/IoSzAI2ksU

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#waffle1720 0/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 streak: 8 ⭐ #wafflerookie https://t.co/IoSzAI2ksU — Mɐɹɹǝu Wʎǝɹs (@warrenmyers) Oct 7, 2026 from Twitter https://twitter.com/warrenmyers October 6, 2026 at 08:05PM via IFTTT

This needs some heavy qualification – if it were truly the case that moral beauty can only come if the moral actor is capabale of moral evil, then God cannot be God Likewise, it contradicts the fact that in the new heavens and new earth there will be no possibility of moral failure

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This needs some heavy qualification – if it were truly the case that moral beauty can only come if the moral actor is capabale of moral evil, then God cannot be God Likewise, it contradicts the fact that in the new heavens and new earth there will be no possibility of moral failure — Mɐɹɹǝu …
Continue reading This needs some heavy qualification – if it were truly the case that moral beauty can only come if the moral actor is capabale of moral evil, then God cannot be God

Likewise, it contradicts the fact that in the new heavens and new earth there will be no possibility of moral failure

Those of us who started programming on highly-constrained environments have always known computers were far more powerful than most software would lead you to believe https://t.co/4BzxTZPssL

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Those of us who started programming on highly-constrained environments have always known computers were far more powerful than most software would lead you to believe https://t.co/4BzxTZPssL — Mɐɹɹǝu Wʎǝɹs (@warrenmyers) Oct 6, 2026 from Twitter https://twitter.com/warrenmyers October 6, 2026 at 08:49AM via IFTTT

And I would wager they are also somewhere between libertarian and republican in their political affiliation (or equivalent, for non-US-ians) https://t.co/d8xvZxUo4Q

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And I would wager they are also somewhere between libertarian and republican in their political affiliation (or equivalent, for non-US-ians) https://t.co/d8xvZxUo4Q — Mɐɹɹǝu Wʎǝɹs (@warrenmyers) Oct 6, 2026 from Twitter https://twitter.com/warrenmyers October 5, 2026 at 09:12PM via IFTTT

Not a surprise – the US has created (and later declassified) plans in the past for a potential invasion of Canada It is what military planners do – they contemplate potentialities and draw up plans to handle those contingencies https://t.co/ZufWkifg7u

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Not a surprise – the US has created (and later declassified) plans in the past for a potential invasion of Canada It is what military planners do – they contemplate potentialities and draw up plans to handle those contingencies https://t.co/ZufWkifg7u — Mɐɹɹǝu Wʎǝɹs (@warrenmyers) Oct 6, 2026 from Twitter https://twitter.com/warrenmyers October 5, 2026 at 08:06PM …
Continue reading Not a surprise – the US has created (and later declassified) plans in the past for a potential invasion of Canada

It is what military planners do – they contemplate potentialities and draw up plans to handle those contingencies https://t.co/ZufWkifg7u

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#waffle1719 2/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 streak: 7 ⭐ #wafflerookie https://t.co/IoSzAI2ksU — Mɐɹɹǝu Wʎǝɹs (@warrenmyers) Oct 6, 2026 from Twitter https://twitter.com/warrenmyers October 5, 2026 at 08:01PM via IFTTT

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#deluxewaffle228 X/5 (26) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://t.co/4r77i4rFA0 — Mɐɹɹǝu Wʎǝɹs (@warrenmyers) Oct 5, 2026 from Twitter https://twitter.com/warrenmyers October 4, 2026 at 09:54PM via IFTTT

#waffle1718 3/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩⭐🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 streak: 6 ⭐ #wafflerookie https://t.co/IoSzAI2ksU

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#waffle1718 3/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩⭐🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 streak: 6 ⭐ #wafflerookie https://t.co/IoSzAI2ksU — Mɐɹɹǝu Wʎǝɹs (@warrenmyers) Oct 5, 2026 from Twitter https://twitter.com/warrenmyers October 4, 2026 at 09:52PM via IFTTT

Florida Man says AI is dangerous Not so scary when Florida Man says it, right? Of course not. Because you know what is coming next is going to be off the walls, bat guano stupid Same thing any time you see a headline that starts “Bill Gates Says…” https://t.co/ESqM5QQOOo

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Florida Man says AI is dangerous Not so scary when Florida Man says it, right? Of course not. Because you know what is coming next is going to be off the walls, bat guano stupid Same thing any time you see a headline that starts “Bill Gates Says…” https://t.co/ESqM5QQOOo — Mɐɹɹǝu Wʎǝɹs (@warrenmyers) Oct 4, …
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Not so scary when Florida Man says it, right? Of course not. Because you know what is coming next is going to be off the walls, bat guano stupid

Same thing any time you see a headline that starts “Bill Gates Says…” https://t.co/ESqM5QQOOo

#waffle1717 1/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩⭐🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 streak: 5 ⭐ #wafflerookie https://t.co/IoSzAI2ksU

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#waffle1717 1/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩⭐🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 streak: 5 ⭐ #wafflerookie https://t.co/IoSzAI2ksU — Mɐɹɹǝu Wʎǝɹs (@warrenmyers) Oct 4, 2026 from Twitter https://twitter.com/warrenmyers October 3, 2026 at 08:34PM via IFTTT

Call the polytheistic sex cult dressed up in christiany terminology whatever you want: does not change that Smithism-Youngism is a demonic disease invented less than 200 years ago https://t.co/CWF6Zja4G2

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Call the polytheistic sex cult dressed up in christiany terminology whatever you want: does not change that Smithism-Youngism is a demonic disease invented less than 200 years ago https://t.co/CWF6Zja4G2 — Mɐɹɹǝu Wʎǝɹs (@warrenmyers) Oct 3, 2026 from Twitter https://twitter.com/warrenmyers October 3, 2026 at 05:35PM via IFTTT