[crispyambulance]

    > The problem with the 10x myth is that it assumes a single dimension of productivity...

There's another problem with "10x": people evolve.

No one starts their career as a 10x-er, juniors are not juniors forever and people take time to find their knowledge, preferences, the right context, employer, coworkers, etc, before they can even discover their "super-powers".

And anyway, all the people I've ever met who could be called "10x" would immediately reject that label and/or buffer it with generous praise of the team in which they work. They would also tell a LONG story of how they got to where they are-- hint: it never starts with being at the top of their game. Instead, it always starts with or involves a lucky-break or a hard situation made better by someone who believed in them.

[scarface74]

If I consider myself even twice as good as average with something, it’s probably time for me to transition to something else and start over.

Right now, for instance, I’m getting into the $cool_kids front end stack and I am barely above the level of “don’t eat the chalk”.