Create value that becomes infrastructure for another person’s success.

Some contributions are used once and some become the ground other things are built on. A clear standard, a working tool, a well-explained method: people stop noticing them precisely because they can rely on them, and that invisibility is a mark of success rather than a failure of recognition.

When you solve something the hard way, spend the extra hour to make the solution reusable. Write it down, tidy it up, make it findable. The next twenty people who need it will never know your name, which is fine.