Build things that make talent around them more effective.

The most valuable things in any group are often not the individual performers but the arrangements that make everyone else more effective. Good tools, clear processes, and shared knowledge raise the output of every person who touches them, which compounds in a way that individual brilliance does not.

If you want more impact than your own hours allow, spend some of them improving what everyone uses. Fix the thing that wastes ten people’s time. It will feel less impressive than doing the work yourself and matter more.