Somewhat inexperienced team leader here. IMO, working on improving the team's knowledge as a whole is so much more rewarding than working on your own knowledge

Somewhat inexperienced team leader here. IMO, working on improving the team's knowledge as a whole is so much more rewarding than working on your own knowledge and snapping at people who want you to share it. The style I favor when the junior devs ask me questions is to ask questions right back at them, kind of like in a Socratic dialogue. This makes them reluctant to come to me for easy answers and think more about the problem first. In the end I get a team of people with steadily improving skills to whom I can delegate ever more complex tasks.