U-hauling Servers on Christmas: Extreme Straight-Line Engineering
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BLUF: 10x engineers find the biggest fires, and execute on extreme straight-line solutions, often stepping on toes in the process
Where’s my opinion come from? I’m not here to claim that I’m a 10x developer—saying so would be wildly arrogant. But I’ve been around engineering for 15 years, spent time in the trenches with some absolutely brilliant ICs, and helped build engineering tools for folks at Snowflake, Asana, Brex, Ramp, and Square. I co-founded a startup dedicated to making code review faster (and hopefully less painful). Through it all, I’ve seen firsthand what separates the “good” from the unbelievably impactful. When I say “10x engineer,” I don’t mean someone who writes 10 times more code or who logs the…
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