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I do feel that. Another way to view this is that programming sometimes is like solving a math problem. A top-tier mathematician can solve a difficult math problem 100x faster than …

There is not a straightforward way to measure it. It’s highly domain dependent. There are some general directions though. Deep understanding of domain knowledge, clear logics, exce…

I would argue that making efficient and reliable software products is a very crucial factor for a software company to bring more revenue. It’s just not as straightforward to measur…

I agree that 10 engineers can’t do everything 10x. Even 10x engineers can only let 10% of the code 10x faster, it might have a deciding impact on the end result. if a software prod…

Programming itself is a super lever. That's probably why the productivity among software engineers can be so extreme.

It might be hard to build an unicorn with a single super developer. But he/she might build a great product to get the company enough funding to grow to an unicorn.

Around 5% of MLB players can get $20M a year, which is around 5x to the average. But I am not sure there are 5% of engineers at the Bay Area can more than $1M

I read this article before and I think this might apply to a 5-10 person startup. An engineer’s ability might be easily measured there. But the problem is startups at that scale us…

I think "N"x is just a hypothetical number. It can be 1x - 50x depending on the individual

The difference is a sports team has at most 30 team members but a company can have 1000+ engineers, which makes everything tangled together

I thought most stock options are worth like x% of your base salary. They usually can boost the total salary on a certain level but not a crazy amount?

But the problem is the software industry is hype complex. Thus is almost impossible to measure your real revenue contribution.

Interesting. I would be curious about if it's the engineering ability that makes them get such high salaries or it’s something else.

The right circumstance + the right person can make someone 50x. It appears to me the ability to identify circumstances and people and put them in the right place is also very impor…

I think it's also very hard to even just be proven to be a 50x engineer even within a company. And most companies don't know how to identify 50x engineers. And yes even if they can…

This is an interesting point! I do agree with you that "they mostly don't have genius-level work to give them" is one of the reasons why this happens.

Interesting!

Haha thanks! It took me some time to make that anime. I didn't get too much traction when publishing it. Good to know someone likes it!

This super cool!! And very similar to the ideal online meetings should be for me. I even made a video to describe this online interaction problem. https://youtu.be/q6zM1wn0dTs Good…