What the Top 1% of Software Engineers Do That the Other 99% Do Not

It is surprisingly reasonable. I wouldn't bring this up at any company though. It seems some people are pretty happy to be Adders but perhaps it is because they prefer becoming Multipliers in the business analysis in parallel?

> They tend to have open-source contributions to their name, speak at conferences

I would say "They tend to push for generic solutions for common problems across the whole team/department, share knowledge with the whole team/department".