> They begin from a premise that "Everyone else is incompetent and I am the savior".
I have worked with someone who was like this. Perhaps unlike the author, they were not in fact the savior in a room full of idiots.
This person was no doubt clever and had interesting experiences to learn from. But they were also dysfunctionally arrogant and utterly resistant to ideas that were not their own, to the point where it repeatedly and painfully got in the way of their own progress and other people's progress around them. At the end of the day they got done what they needed to get done, but they left a big mess behind that took weeks to even stabilize (as in, "prod is broken, prioritize above all other work") before the rest of the team could get back to their regular work.
May such people forever find themselves in solo contributor roles, so as to spare others the pain of being their close collaborators.
I have worked with someone who was like this. Perhaps unlike the author, they were not in fact the savior in a room full of idiots.
This person was no doubt clever and had interesting experiences to learn from. But they were also dysfunctionally arrogant and utterly resistant to ideas that were not their own, to the point where it repeatedly and painfully got in the way of their own progress and other people's progress around them. At the end of the day they got done what they needed to get done, but they left a big mess behind that took weeks to even stabilize (as in, "prod is broken, prioritize above all other work") before the rest of the team could get back to their regular work.
May such people forever find themselves in solo contributor roles, so as to spare others the pain of being their close collaborators.