For a senior, a great way to reduce the bus factor is to periodically stop all work in things other people can do. (Catch up on your reading, or write that cool

For a senior, a great way to reduce the bus factor is to periodically stop all work in things other people can do. (Catch up on your reading, or write that cool code transformer you can’t stop thinking about or whatever). Hep when asked but very passively “why don’t you share your screen and we can try to debug it” instead of “try again, it should work now.” It might go really well or might show what areas you need to grow the team capabilities, but either way you get to know how great the code transformer idea really was.