virtuosity

Why do I care that people think a crowd is capable of individual virtuosity?

Sure, there is a natural anatomical caused level of virtuosity which simply can't be overcome.

Back to a focus on the performer as a simple human who does feats, macho virtuosity and does crowd conscious manipulations.

It takes a really particular sort of artist/coder to pull this sort of thing off -- technical virtuosity while retaining an imagination.

Those lead to pretty different end results, but they have in common a focus on individual creativity and/or virtuosity rather than method/process.

Here's a fun exercise: go find a job posting for a Rails startup that doesn't expound on the virtuosity of its TDD practices.

What this requires depends on the job, but it is a mix of technical virtuosity, social skills, and ability to navigate the corporate environment.

The company with the most number of users always has an advantage that other companies with fewer users can not circumvent with technical virtuosity.

Just extrapolating: that highly abstract symbolic language/keyboard, combined with an agile mind (think 'Limitless' the movie) and 10-finger virtuosity, would be an incredible coding force...

Does anyone know of a good video demonstrating editor virtuosity?

Your technical expertise or the virtuosity of your software is not relevant to the business at large (though it is relevant to the business at hand).

Eventually, he was able to regain his stature and virtuosity!

However, for sheer technical brilliance, perhaps a word should be said for the ElectroBard from Stanislaw Lem's Cyberiad, whose verbal virtuosity was such that when challenged: “compose a poem- a poem about a haircut!