Iβm happy to present as a guest author in this newsletter.
He is a performance coach who helps people unlock the potential in their work through principles of spirituality.
He also writes The Rise, a Substack newsletter that equips you with actionable advice on improving your work in under 5 minutes each week.
We originally published this piece in his newsletter and now we decided to refine it further and share it with you.
Without further ado, hereβs Zan for you.

10x Software Engineer: a software engineer who is exceptionally productive. Through writing genius code, they can solve problems 10 times better and faster than the average developer.
There are two groups of software engineers in the world.
The first group are 10x engineers.They somehow manage to get an outsized amount of work done to the highest level. The second group wants to be like the first.
People have written hundreds of blogs trying to explain how people can move from the second group to the first.
But tβ¦
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