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10x = It takes 10 people to clear the mess they left behind. In my 15 years of career, all people I have seen who were referred as 10x were the people who took terrible shortcuts to deliver whatevs they try to deliver and when it comes to building on top of that thing everyone who touched that hot mess had a miserable life.

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that's not a real 10x. that's a 0.1x who heard about it and tried to emulate it.

it's not 10x in SLOC or whatever, it's total, long term, value. and yet it does exist.

it's like arguing that Michael Jordan doesn't exist because everyone you've ever played with was only about as good as you.

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