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I find it so valuable when people in this kind of position within the software industry admit their human faults. It is so easy to fall into the trap of impost
by marsRoverDev 9y ago
I find it so valuable when people in this kind of position within the software industry admit their human faults.
It is so easy to fall into the trap of impostor syndrome. We all have these problems, and coupled with the potential complexity of some programming tasks it can feel overwhelming.
- aerique 9y agoYes, last week Ken Perlin's post and now this one (even though it is from 2002) really came at the right time for me. I had been struggling a bit at work with precisely these issues and now I don't feel too bad about myself anymore thanks to these articles.
- greenshackle2 9y agoYes, definitely. Early in my career I had a coach, a very impressive, productive person. I started using the pomodoro technique, and I brought up the fact that I felt unproductive because I was having a lot of trouble achieving my goal of 11-12 pomodoros per day. She was like, "you realize 11 is a very hard goal, right? When I was using pomodoros I was usually doing 8 per days. Most people struggle to do a single one when they start." It was illuminating. In grad school my adviser was seen as the most productive, intense person in my department. We got on pretty good terms, and when I was struggling he started telling me about how much time he spends doing e-mail and reading random books (if you paid attention you might notice the arts and philosophy books laying around on his desk; he's an engineering prof.)
- beagle3 9y agoAlong the same lines, http://journal.kennethreitz.org/ http://journal.kennethreitz.org/ is highly recommended.