”x10” is an unhelpful myth. the programmer that I most respect explained the phenomena as ”a minority of programmers have optimised things to get stuff done and focus on what counts. the majority haven't and so have a lot lower total output”. This correlates with my experiences and observing others. When I am in my flow I can get great stuff done. When I am caught up shaving someone else herd of yaks between a week full of meetings nothing concrete gets achieved over many days. The lesson is not that there is special 10x pixie dust. The lesson is that you need to remove all the meetings and yak shaving and incidental complexity and get into your flow. Some people are more practised at that. If you find your flow and remove the incidental complexity and optimize your tools you will go at full 1x speed like the minority. If you keep on with waiting for slow deployments to then test your code you will go at 0.1x speed like the majority.
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”x10” is an unhelpful myth. the programmer that I most respect explained the phenomena as ”a minority of programmers have optimised things to get stuff done and focus on what counts. the majority haven't and so have a lot lower total output”. This correlates with my experiences and observing others. When I am in my flow I can get great stuff done. When I am caught up shaving someone else herd of yaks between a week full of meetings nothing concrete gets achieved over many days. The lesson is not that there is special 10x pixie dust. The lesson is that you need to remove all the meetings and yak shaving and incidental complexity and get into your flow. Some people are more practised at that. If you find your flow and remove the incidental complexity and optimize your tools you will go at full 1x speed like the minority. If you keep on with waiting for slow deployments to then test your code you will go at 0.1x speed like the majority.