Re:Why I Strive to be a 0.1x Engineer
by jmilloy on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @11:46AM
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The story is simplified. The 10x engineer is usually someone who has the technical skills and knows have to deploy them effectively. The 10x finishes the Wordpress site and then moves on to the next task, and the next, and the next completing them efficiently, even though some require technical skills and some do not.
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True. 10X is productivity in the context of business value. Clyde will take six months before he can deliver something of value while Alice will have solved ten more business problems with within that same time period.
The key differentiation is: is the company a technology company (Clyde's approach is more valuable) or not (Alice's approach is more valuable).
Re:Why I Strive to be a 0.1x Engineer
by lsiebert on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @07:22PM
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I feel like much of high level engineering work isn't having knows (sic), at least beyond a certain level. It's being able to grok a narrow problem domain from first principles, write code, then forget it to learn a different narrow problem domain the next week.