Most importantly, stop the urges to compare yourself with the 'typical' or 'ideal' Hacker News contributor. Nobody besides PG or Peter Norvig live up to this id

Most importantly, stop the urges to compare yourself with the 'typical' or 'ideal' Hacker News contributor. Nobody besides PG or Peter Norvig live up to this ideal. Development comes in so many forms, its really unbelievable how many ways you can be a professional and successful developer. And with this, you can only learn so much. Its just like how the Facebook stream makes so many people feel sad; other people only share what they want, essentially marketing themselves. There are hundreds of successful and happy developers for every person on HN who rambles on and on about reading SICP every weekend or writing their own compiler.