What I value

The most useful thing I learned in my career had little to do with technique. It is that a good idea is worth very little until you say it out loud. I have worked with people who had sharper ideas than mine and kept them to themselves, and that thinking never went anywhere. So I try to share early, write things down, and keep them simple enough that someone else can use them.

That only works if you actually understand the thing. My way of working has been the same for years: something new appears, half of it is still unclear, and I go after it. Books, courses, evenings spent getting it wrong, until it makes sense. Then I take people with me, because understanding something on your own is not much use to a team.