"making your work easy to understand and explain to others" This is the hallmark of a professional (very likely mature and senior) team member. Nothing to prov

"making your work easy to understand and explain to others" This is the hallmark of a professional (very likely mature and senior) team member. Nothing to prove and interested in a maintainable project. There are times for clever, no doubt. Every rule has an exception. Bill (William) Kennedy at Ardan Labs has a line he uses in his talks: the bottom level developers need to grow and come up and the top level developers need to avoid cleverness and come down and everyone meet in the middle.