[doytch]

The units the article is concerned with is time spent, not output.

Spend more time creating than you do consuming.

The only one of your options examples that doesn’t then make more sense is the software developer, and as a software developer myself, I’m very content with not putting my creativity against those other examples.

[johnnyanmac]

In all honesty, I've probably deleted more code than I've written in my career. So I guess I'm a destroyer more than a creator.

I wonder if writing is the same in an attempt to be more concise?