One Man Armies

Summary

One Man Armies In an overdecorated office somewhere in California, there is someone being paid so much money they could take six months of their salary, move to Brazil, and never work another day in their life — and yet this person is getting a remarkably little amount of work done every day. Just down the street, in a similar-looking office, there is a similar-looking person who is producing astonishing work at a breakneck pace. The variation in human output is kind of insane. What some may consider impossible without a team and $5M can sometimes be built by a single person who cares a lot and works hard. It’s easy to understimate just how much a one person army can achieve. So here are some of our favorite one-person (or mostly one-person) projects. We’re not including things that you wouldn't be surprised one person made, like a music album or a novel, though those are also very impressive. Stardew Valley was made by Eric Barone, who put in 70 hours a week for 4.5 years before releasing the game for the first time. He still updates the game with loads of new content.Linux was created by Linus Torvalds. He is not responsible for all of Linux and did not do everything single handedly, but he was its origin (which was a lot of work).Minecraft, before it sold to Microsoft, was developed by Markus Persson. It took him 2 years!The Art of Computer Programming is a massive tome of a lot of knowledge about computer programming and algorithms and math. It’s used by all sorts of people (from scientists to mathematicians to linguists) and it is not yet done. The one person behind this book is Donald Knuth.The Sagrada Familia was designed by Antonio Gaudí, who spent more than 40 years of his life on it.The first scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean floor, which discovered the rift valley in the Mid-Atlantic ridge and was foundational evidence for the plate tectonics theory, was created solo by Marie Tharp. Bruce Heezen, a colleague, collected the raw data as women were not al...