That includes identifying useful ideas from elsewhere - conferences, magazines, books, hn, etc - then adapting them to make sense on current project, convincing the rest of the team of their fitness, and then leading the rest of the team to understand and learn them. Not a manager, a leader.
For the record, "make sense" is not the same as "cram every shiny v0.1 toy into the next project."
That includes identifying useful ideas from elsewhere - conferences, magazines, books, hn, etc - then adapting them to make sense on current project, convincing the rest of the team of their fitness, and then leading the rest of the team to understand and learn them. Not a manager, a leader.
For the record, "make sense" is not the same as "cram every shiny v0.1 toy into the next project."