Comment by softwaredoug

If you're Tim here, here's a career protip

Don't spend all your "empowerment" energy at one company. Companies WILL undervalue "glue" developers (and also "glue" teams). Eventually being so focused internally can hurt you.

Instead, if you're good at helping others, do it publicly. Speak, blog, participate in open source. Turn your "helping others" energy into one of helping the broader development community. Pay it forward there and it will reap more dividends.