Re:The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer (2020)
by bjornsing on Friday January 20, 2023 @09:39AM
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> 10x skills are everywhere.
Yep. And as cognitive tasks become more challenging the distribution of ability actually widens.
As an extreme example, how much more productive was Andrew Wiles than the median mathematician at the task of proving Fermat’s last theorem? Pretty much infinitely more productive I would say…
Yep. And as cognitive tasks become more challenging the distribution of ability actually widens.
As an extreme example, how much more productive was Andrew Wiles than the median mathematician at the task of proving Fermat’s last theorem? Pretty much infinitely more productive I would say…