On becoming a 10x engineer
Drive to completion. Be output focused.
Don’t be afraid to build your own solution even if its just to understand better ones along the way.
Know that simple is better. Don’t over engineer.
Have a thesis on the internals of the systems they work with (especially novel ones. Everything you do validates or invalidates this.
Always look for the 80/20.
Don’t be fooled by sexy systems that promise to do it all. It’s easier to string together (and understand) things that do one thing well.
Don’t be afraid to experiment as they go, especially if the things you’re doing will take a long time to return results. Helps balance exploit vs explore.
If you can't remember what the states of everything you're working on, write it down with any assumptions.
Do all of this and ship, quickly and repeatedly.
