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I still feel like the upstart who barely knows what he is doing. The only difference is the people around me. I used to be surrounded by people I looked up to,
by neilk 4y ago
I still feel like the upstart who barely knows what he is doing.
The only difference is the people around me. I used to be surrounded by people I looked up to, who seemed to know everything.
But now everyone around me has become mysteriously less and less competent and they're acting like I am the established authority, which just shows how little they must know!
- PcChip 4y agoI feel this, thought I was the only one
- twiddling 4y agoYou realized that everyone else has been faking it too
- skeeter2020 4y agoYes, I don't feel any smarter but I see others missing what I think are obvious observations and actions much more frequently. I'm also OK being the same fraud I've felt like since my 20's. Starting to be comfortable in my skin, I just wish it wasn't so wrinkly now that I can enjoy it.
- sdwr 4y agoNice
- Aeolun 4y agoHaha, yeah. I absolutely recognice that. It’s really weird to imagine that some of the people I work with were babies when I left university.
- moonchrome 4y agoI don't get this TBH. I work with younger coworkers and I recognize them falling for similar traps I did years/decade ago. I don't see my coworkers getting less competent, I'm just aware that I did way more stupid shit than they did and have the benefit of experience.
- yawnr 4y agoHe’s making a joke about (I think) about the imperceptible passage of time and his evolving place in the world / workplace
- neilk 4y agoYeah, it was just a joke. Younger coworkers are inevitably much better than I was at their age. How could they not be? Everything is better, and enlightenment is always just a few clicks away. But the internet can’t teach you everything. Like when to give up and try a different strategy. Or that there might be different strategies to even try!
- wraptile 4y ago> But now everyone around me has become mysteriously less and less competent I feel as we gain experience we learn that most of the things can be learned! It kinda removes a lot of magic from the world but also is weirdly freeing. I dread if there's the other end of the bell curve somewhere out there where we start to think that learning is not possible or practical anymore.
- eastbound 4y agoI’m a CEO now. An employee who’s older than me looks up to me as knowing more, more about Xmx tuning, coredumps, AWS dogfighting, SQL data models and so on. This is so wrong. My job is mostly HR, presales and lawyers now, so by the sheer time he spends on tech, he’s much better than me, and I don’t know what I’m doing with my strategy orientations. We all feel like that image of a dog in front of a computer with the subtitle “I haz no idea what I’m doing.” Some of us manage JVMs, some others are CEOs, no-one know what they’re doing, but we have a world to govern. Some of us have countries and nuclear weapons to govern…
- ryloric 4y agoThat must be it..