How To Become a 10x Dev: An Essential Guide

In a Nutshell

Software development is a team sport. Your individual performance doesn't matter as much as the performance of your whole team and company.
By improving how you work, you only ADD to your team's performance. By improving how everyone works, you MULTIPLY your team's performance.
Multiplying the whole team's performance will put you on a much faster lane for being noticed and promoted than being a crazy efficient individual contributor.
Boosting other people's performance requires a different mindset and approach than boosting your individual performance. In this article, I'll show you 16 proven ways to multiply your team's performance (or even the whole company).

The Common Misconception of 10x Dev

If you google the term "10x developer", you'll get many results related to individual performance.

Check out the quotes from a few of the top results that I've got:

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