[contingencies]

Let's face it: there's little to nothing that's new under the sun in software. Experience means understanding old but newly recast problems faster, and if you're lucky, solving their higher abstraction level equivalents the next time for greater apparent effect to the lay observer. As widely understood, the essential repetition of the solution act is something that bores good programmers. I frequently explain programming to others as not entirely dissimilar to floor sweeping. Who is the 10x engineer, then? Simple. They hit those areas that are simultaneously the most trafficked and noticeable, but perversely also the most ignored: the office fridge, the corporate atrium, the stained carpet outside the front door under someone else's management.