Most of us get that there are top-tier software engineers who outperform their peers but fail to grasp by how much. And it's not about being 2x, 5x, or even 10x better. Some of the very best engineers are 100 times more productive than their peers. Picture that: creating more value in a single day than a big-co engineer creates in 3 months. The examples are everywhereGoogle's initial team had just
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