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I doubt Zach himself agrees with his article's title.

Because the title isn't his point.

His point is, and I quote: "What I think is bad is that there’s so much pride and focus on The Best of the Best of the Best, With Honors."

Which doesn't conflict with 10x. If 95% of the world's best software is written by the top 5% of programmers, the programmer who isn't in the top 1% and barely made the cut at the top 5% is still exceptional.

It's true companies seek pain avoidance rather than pleasure seeking behavior. But pain avoidance also gets you Windows instead of Linux or Mac.

If the question Zach is asking is: "is there such a thing as a 10x engineer?" the answer is yes.

The story from philosophy class was educational though.