I enjoy the premise of being the 0.1x developer as this post says but in the real world we face real problems. That impossible deadline given to the 10x dev? That's probably for a reason. The world moves fast and more importantly it doesn't work for you. So you need to meet other people's expectations until the day you can afford to say no.
In fact if the author is here, the reason one can be a .1x dev is because the real work is already done by the 10x guy/gal (we'll refer to as X). Without X the product might even not exist or the entire company and your job.
The way this article is worded is also making me feel like the author has this self doubt about his productivity or someone questioned him about it. His ego doesn't want him to improve but push harder to be 0.001x and look for validation.
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I enjoy the premise of being the 0.1x developer as this post says but in the real world we face real problems. That impossible deadline given to the 10x dev? That's probably for a reason. The world moves fast and more importantly it doesn't work for you. So you need to meet other people's expectations until the day you can afford to say no.
In fact if the author is here, the reason one can be a .1x dev is because the real work is already done by the 10x guy/gal (we'll refer to as X). Without X the product might even not exist or the entire company and your job.
The way this article is worded is also making me feel like the author has this self doubt about his productivity or someone questioned him about it. His ego doesn't want him to improve but push harder to be 0.001x and look for validation.