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- Strategies for growing as a researcher.

99.99th Percentile Is Just Showing Up Every Day

On one end, machine learning can track the actual value of a person's contribution to the code base — its quality, its adoption by other colleagues, and how critical it is to the functioning of the overall project.

In the market of ideas and technology, the top performers are at least 10x more valuable than the average performers—making hiring of utmost importance

A reproducible testing process is more valuable than any one idea. Innovate here first. All things equal, a team with more shots at bat will win against a team with an audacious vision.

starting in the late 1980s, with the explosion of the knowledge economy, people who were broader—who had worked across numerous technological domains—started making the biggest impacts. That's continuing today.