Love this article on creating good conditions for software engineers to do their best work instead of worshipping 10x engineers. After a few jobs, you start to notice that the same person can be wildly productive in one job, 1/10 as productive in the next job, and bounce back in the following job... I've also noticed that "10x engineers" tend to be surrounded by "unproductive" engineers who are being sabotaged, plagiarized, or forced to clean up by the "10x engineer"
My spouse had to work with a guy who thought he was a 10x engineer once.
Some time after the guy left the company, boss called and said to search for the guys name.
He was in the news for having been arrested for murder.