There's been a lot of flak over this tweet about recognizing the mythical "10x engineer"—the engineer that is so good that it doesn't matter if they reduce the productivity of everyone around them. But tearing down someone's list is easy. What we need is a set of rules that recognizes what the right person looks like. Here's my point-by-point rewrite.
I wrote this in 2006 at Meadowlark Music Camp in Maine. It's a slightly modified version of "House of the Rising Sun", with the focus on the New Orleans flood.
