[bovermyer]

"10x engineer," in my experience, is typified by "hyper-focused engineer who works 16 hour days 7 days a week and is the darling of upper management."

In my entire career (spanning 20 years by the year, 16 years of active time), I've only met one engineer who astonished me with his prodigious amount of _correct and clean_ output. But the downside was that engineering was his entire life; you couldn't hang out with him, because all he ever wanted to talk about was engineering.

There's a tradeoff for that kind of output.