[sesm]

Steps to become 10x engineer:

1. Be one of the first in the project.

2. Make project messy (for example, by practicing narcissistic design [1]).

3. Don't do any kind of mentoring for newcomers, don't write any docs.

4. Be an asshole to kill newcomers' confidence.

5. When all other founding engineers leave, you will be 10x even by fair metrics.

[1] https://github.com/stuarthalloway/presentations/wiki/Narciss...