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How to handle a brilliant team member who shuts down others

Our engineering team has a brilliant senior developer who dismisses every idea that isn't theirs and the rest of us have started self-censoring in technical discussions. I'm the tech lead and I know I should address this but they're genuinely the smartest person on the team and I'm worried about losing them or making them defensive.

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