[beagle3]

Very relevant: https://yosefk.com/blog/10x-more-selective.html

I agree with yosefk's observation. The people who are consistently 10x more effective are, in my experience, those who manage not to deal with unavoidable-accidental-complexity in problems. It's not their only strength, of course -- they are also very good at what they do.

But e.g. if your work depends on another person responding to your work in some way (e.g. interfacing to a buggy system you have no visibility into), it doesn't matter how fast/good you are - the progress is throttled by the other party. I haven't seen anyone 10x their way through such a setting.