[snowwrestler]

How are you measuring performance?

The 10x concept contains not only the work but the decisions. Not just how to build something, but what to build.

For example, people other than Linus Torvalds can code at the level needed to write and maintain git--as evidenced by the fact that other people do that now; he has handed the project off.

But the creation of git included the conception of git--the many decisions about what he would build, and why it should be that way. Those decisions, coupled with solid coding, have resulted in a massive productivity multiplier for many thousands of people.