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)

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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