The programming talent myth

I've been programming for fun since childhood. I certainly would not claim to be a 10x programmer. (One of the reasons that I chose system administration over development as a career.)

How much of this can be attributed to my childhood dabblings having been in BASIC, as with most Britons of my age, is up for debate of course. :)

The talk's premise is extremely sound. All this evidence-free "U-shaped curve with two bell curves at each end" nonsense from the comments simply reinforces that people are likewise mostly mediocre at commenting on things on the Internet.