Lebron James does not make 10 times the contributions of the other players, but he makes the team incredible. The number attached to the 10x engineer is largely bullshit as well as not measurable. I've worked with engineers who make everyone around them much more productive through excellent library code or laying down dope infrastructure that everyone else can leverage. I've also worked with engineers who mentor other engineers extremely well giving those productivity gains in turn. That doesn't mean she is slinging ten times the code or tickets or whatever every one else on the team is; she is just enabling productivity gains by being an excellent team player. The notion of 10x is a misnomer at best and at worst cause people to focus on other measures that are ultimately meaningless...leading to burnout.
Oh, ok. Look everyone, now it's the number that's the problem. How many more ways can we think of to discredit this notion, which is clearly so in need of discrediting? Get to work, people.
