Ask HN: What bits of fundamental knowledge are productivity multipliers?
All those little bits of knowledge are nice tools and patterns, they&#x27;re definitely good to have. And if you have curiosity, you will naturally keep learning dozens of those over time.<p>But they are not applicable everywhere, so you should not expect your 8 hour days to turn into 48 minutes because you started using regexes, dynamic programming, and search algorithms everywhere.<p>The unlikable and unhelpful answer, but probably the single biggest fundamental multiplier, is unfortunately the g factor. General intelligence.<p>The only 10x differences that genuinely exist are between people who are 2x faster than average and people who are 5x worse. Not because they learned a trick, but for a complex combination of reasons, including having been handed down two or three standard deviations in general intelligence.<p>The harsh reality is that there is no single thing a 1x person can do to become 10x.