Discussion

Topic: Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell popularized the notion of the “10,000 hour rule” (I.e. amount of time needed to develop mastery of something) in the acclaimed Outliers book. How accurate do you think this concept is in your own line of work?

Eddie Wang

Business Books

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Andrei Villasana In the world of Software Engineering, I think this is a half-truth, given that there are a variety of different specializations in the field.

Alissa Ramberg I think that’s especially relevant in an evolving field. Sure more time is still going to help but that mixes things up