Deviate more than a little from the route, and the parade will cease to follow you
Also true when starting a company as an indistinguishable founder. At first, especially in a rapidly evolving space, your central focus is responding to what the market wants and building it before someone else does. It's only after achieving dominance that you can invest effort into building things no one else would.
King power is zero-sum. We cannot both be kings of one another, at least not in the same domain.
Wizard power is positive sum and in some sense your wizard power can enhance mine. If you write a post about creating a batch of RadVac, the odds that I will learn how to do the same increase. The best way to become a good engineer is to spend time with great engineers.
Of course, this assumes that we can avoid obsessions with being comparatively better than others and instead focus on becoming absolutely better. Hard to do for most people.