On: Busting the 10x software engineer myth

[woliveirajr]

But, I think, you should consider that it's 10x at McDonald's vs 1x at a good restaurant and 9 days eating nothing at all.

[phreeza → woliveirajr]

Yes, this is obviously just considering utility at a higher level of the hierarchy of needs, not pure subsistence. Otherwise everyone should just be slurping Soylent all the time I guess.

[bryanrasmussen → woliveirajr]

only if you think that any organization that hires a 10X engineer doesn't hire any 1X engineers.