Darius Foroux writes self-improvement and productivity essays on career success, time management, and habits.
HN mostly links his Price's Law post in discussions of how few people produce most of the work; one commenter lists the blog under productivity and self improvement.
Other good senior people in the team see your performance. In big companies this is normal as nobody will want to upset other people feeling. Managers will also refrain from firing because it reflects on them badly, stop them from building an empire, and hiring is hard.
I am finding that Price's law[1] is very true in programming. You have two pizza teams that have 1-3 top performers carry the rest of the team/project. As long, you are not annoying, team would keep you. There is a very thin line when top performers can become unhappy with a company, project, or team and leave. People that were previously coasting might get more involved or the team implodes.
[1] https://dariusforoux.com/prices-law/
Well if you think about it, it's not that hard to imagine how it happens.
First, you have Price's Law [0] which states that half the work is done by the square root of the number of people. This in itself already implies a lot of useless people, especially at a company the size of Intel.
You might also have whole orgs/departments where pretty much everyone is phoning it in, so that would drive it up as well.
The way I see it is the more layers there are and the more removed people at the top are from the work, the greater chance the of useless people being able to go under the radar.
[0] https://dariusforoux.com/prices-law/
wait wait wait.
You're proposing that the executives don't know what recruiting practices their company is employing to sustain talent for their operations?
Cmon, that's ridiculous. They would be terrible executives if this were true.
Most people I meet agree that recruiting is broken. A huge part of this is regulation. The education system is integrated into the backbone of society which is maintained through regulation.
If you were hired for only a degree then I would be wary of Price's law. https://dariusforoux.com/prices-law/
> "I am a 10X dev and I don;t want the union to pay me the same as my colleague that is a lesser developer then me."
This is a valid concern for highly-paid/specialized individuals, IMO. Price's Law (https://dariusforoux.com/prices-law/): 50% of the work is done by the square root of the total number of people who participate in the work.
Price's Law is "50% of the work is done by the square root of the total number of people who participate in the work."
https://dariusforoux.com/prices-law/
https://routine.co/blog/what-is-the-prices-law-and-why-is-it-important
Thanks!
This reminds me of an article that I'm going to curate today: "Being Different Beats Being Better" http://dariusforoux.com/being-different-beats-being-better/