I love this bit as well:

Being a 1x developer, I make heavy use of conventional wisdom. I don’t have much that’s interesting or new to say about software engineering.

In general, I haven’t found the time to take long stretches away from work, or to take on bigger side projects, or to read really extensively, or to dramatically overachieve. I have little pockets of time here and there.

But I’m feeling ambitious. I would like to become a 1.1x developer. I’m trying to figure out how to get there.

Refreshing honesty and humility on display.

So I’ve been a professional dev for a little over 2 years, with 3 years of self-learning before obtaining my first dev job. I feel like just by having your experience and ability to document all of this, you are at least a 1.5-2.0 dev(or it would seem to me), if that means anything. I would also assert that a 1x dev “struggles” to get by. I say this because I do. Also assuming that the mythical 10x is something that is more than just frequent spurts of genius, how do we determine what are the other spectrum markers? How is it , or even is it even possible to gradually move up those chains?