[HN Gopher] High performance individuals and teams (2020)
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High performance individuals and teams (2020)
Author : ivanvas
Score : 72 points
Date : 2022-05-27 18:16 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| pineconewarrior wrote:
| This reads a lot different for me now that work is more remote. I
| am running into a LOT more bad coworkers now. Likely people
| taking two remote jobs and scamming us.
| lordnacho wrote:
| Classic comment on HN is that guy claiming to make 1.5m a year
| doing 10 jobs.
| kzrdude wrote:
| That's an interesting way to be a 10x engineer then
| analyst74 wrote:
| The more I work with high performance teams and individuals, the
| more I realize the value of creativity. It can be creativity in
| technical solutions; it can be creativity in managing complex
| constraints; it can be creativity in connecting the dots and
| identifying multiplier projects.
|
| When faced with difficult problems, there is a very large
| difference in effectiveness between engineers. And it's not a
| one-dimensional scale, a brilliant engineer in one area can be
| quite average when solving different types of problems due to
| lack of context/domain knowledge/experience.
| dang wrote:
| Discussed at the time:
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| _High Performance Individuals and Teams_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25118762 - Nov 2020 (73
| comments)
| hlplan wrote:
| 10x engineers do exist, yes, and they do write clean code. If
| others don't understand it, it is because they have no domain
| knowledge or interest.
|
| Even in web pages, compare the slickness of lichess.org to
| chess.com. The former is elegant, individualistic and non-
| corporate, the latter has the hallmark of too many meetings and
| divided "team" work.
|
| We get that sometimes management labels a code slinger a 10x
| engineer, _especially if he is also good at conference
| presentations_. This, however, is not the definition on HN.
|
| I've certainly seen more group efforts turn into Rube Goldberg
| machines than efforts of single persons. The group may understand
| the Rube Goldberg machine, tell management that the code is
| perfect, but it is still horrible for outsiders (sometimes
| deliberately).
| titanomachy wrote:
| I haven't been on lichess in a while, but I do remember being
| very impressed by the software.
| lmarcos wrote:
| I think it's not a good comparison. Lichess is a non profit,
| accepts donations and has a benevolent dictator. So it's
| evident that its design, structure, and ux/ui has been on
| charge of a single individual.
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| Whereas chess.com made 2 million USD in revenue last April.
| Obviously, with that revenue, you have dozens of individuals
| pulling in different directions wanting to prove themselves and
| trying to make the platform "better".
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| So the former is a bazaar. The latter a cathedral. Non
| comparable.
| sib301 wrote:
| Also, it's subjective. I have hundreds of games on both
| platforms, and I prefer chess.com.
| jakespencer wrote:
| If you are interested, I would love to hear your thoughts
| about this. A couple of years ago (Queen's Gambit time
| frame) I downloaded the app for lichess and have hundreds
| of games on it. I chose lichess more or less because it was
| non-commercial. I have a few acquaintances that prefer
| chess.com, but I have honestly never given it a fair shake.
| Chess.com looks very commercialized to me, and I feel like
| I am being upsold whenever I visit the site or open the
| app. But most of the chess streamers seem to be active on
| chess.com and not lichess, and some people seem to greatly
| prefer chess.com. What do you prefer about chess.com vs
| lichess?
| kzrdude wrote:
| Streamers are paid to use chess.com, though.
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