Re:Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience does management ...
by jaggederest on Thursday August 17, 2017 @08:26AM
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I think "10x" is just bad shorthand.
If you want to talk about it from a financial perspective, talk about the rate of return.
Can one developer do ten times the work any other developer does during a week? Probably not.
Can one developer have a rate of return such that they get ten times more valuable work done? Almost certainly.
So developer A delivers 3% improvement per year and developer B delivers 6% improvement per year. Across a career, if you start with 100 units, developer A delivers 245 units at the end, and developer B delivers 2008 units.
If you want to talk about it from a financial perspective, talk about the rate of return.
Can one developer do ten times the work any other developer does during a week? Probably not.
Can one developer have a rate of return such that they get ten times more valuable work done? Almost certainly.
So developer A delivers 3% improvement per year and developer B delivers 6% improvement per year. Across a career, if you start with 100 units, developer A delivers 245 units at the end, and developer B delivers 2008 units.