Unfortunately the person who only spends 1 hour working on a blog post, but can spend 100 hours cranking out 100 blog posts, wins out. See Simon Willison, for example.
Re:Become a 1000x engineer or die tryin
by Alex3917 on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @02:11PM
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You're not wrong, but it's ultimately the same background and skillset as what I'm talking about that enables that also. E.g. Simon Willison could easily sit down and write a bestselling book if he wanted to.
So, for example, someone who can productively spend 100 hours working on a blog post is probably going to get win out against someone who can only productively spend 5 hours working a blog post on the same topic.
And given a society where 99% of the rewards go to 1st place, 1% of the rewards go to 2nd place, and 0% of the rewards go to everyone else, having this ability is usually more valuable than the ability to pump out a little more work in some fixed amount of time.