Thanks for mentioning this, I'll check out imba.io. Also the essay itself is a classic, I wonder what other new techniques or technologies have been invented that let us beat the averages, other than just lisp, though.
I would wager that the landscape today is a bit of an opposite. The secret sauce today is to reject as much excessive technology as possible while still meeting your business goals. A lot of productivity is wasted on framework churn.
