Choose boring employees
Tech choices matter. The industry evolves and all of this experimentation in languages, frameworks, tooling, and libraries has led to real productivity gains.<p>10X developers may be rare...but I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s so rare to see 10X productivity gains when it comes to tech stacks.<p>For example, a company who runs their own servers manually can see dramatic improvements in productivity and agility if they move to a newer tech stack and run on AWS or Heroku or some PaaS as an alternative.<p>Using JQuery may be the tried, true, and mature front end stack, but I&#x27;ve been able to rewrite front-end code in a different framework with less than 1&#x2F;5th of the code to maintain.<p>To summarize, I think you should hire energized, motivated, continually educated employees that stay at the top of their game...not boring ones.