[gruseom]

I spent Saturday digging out a basement with my son. The kid was a machine—for sure he did an order of magnitude more than I did. There's your 10x right there. If you can see it with picks, shovels, and a wheelbarrow, it's hardly implausible that you would see it in software.

The research literature on programming productivity sucks, but not because 10x is a myth. It sucks because we have no reliable way of measuring these things.

[falcolas]

Age, physique, motivation and balancing work with rest had nothing to do with it?

I'm 10x more productive than my dad at physical labor, but a lot of that is because he's 75 and I'm less than half his age. Doesn't mean I'm any kind of physical labor "rockstar"...

[gruseom]

Of course those things have something to do with it! Who would ever say they didn't?

[alguemoi]

My mother thinks I'm 10X handsome.

[gruseom]

If you're accusing me of bias, my vanity would quite have preferred a different outcome :)