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Re:The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer (2020) by josephg on Friday January 20, 2023 @08:51AM (#34453086)
Yep. I have 10x weeks - sometimes months. Then I have weeks like this one where I do basically nothing.

I think the total output is still quite high compared to other people, but I’ve spent most of my professional life torturing myself for being “lazy” because my work patterns don’t look like other people.

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Re:The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer (2020) by antihero on Friday January 20, 2023 @09:38AM (#34453730)
Ha yes, when I was in my twenties I was known as the guy who’d get a week’s worth of work done in the one day I turned up…
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Re:The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer (2020) by thanatropism on Friday January 20, 2023 @09:03AM (#34453245)
Ah, the times where I worked for a large org and could get away with these variations. Startups and consulting clients can't afford or don't care that you're having a bad couple of weeks.
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