You can be fun and clever on your own time. When you're doing code in a team, prefer readability over clever terseness and premature optimisation. Doubly so if

You can be fun and clever on your own time. When you're doing code in a team, prefer readability over clever terseness and premature optimisation. Doubly so if (when) you're not the one who has to come look at the code in 5 years and spend days deciphering the clever bits.