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My version of imposter syndrome is worrying I'm actually an expert beginner. How can one ever really know? I have some risk factors: I've been in a small team a
by feoren 3y ago
My version of imposter syndrome is worrying I'm actually an expert beginner. How can one ever really know? I have some risk factors: I've been in a small team at the same company for over a decade, I have some pretty strong opinions about the way things should be done (at least for the kinds of projects I work on), and I dislike and avoid most of popular frameworks out there (not because they're popular, but because they aren't aligned with my development philosophies). On paper that sure looks like I'm high-risk for Expert Beginnerism. Is there some test we can take to know?
- syndicatedjelly 3y agoThink you just took the test
- feoren 3y agoAre you saying I clearly am, or clearly am not an expert beginner? That could be taken both ways.
- syndicatedjelly 3y agoNo I'm just saying you did the analysis and read the article, so you should trust whatever conclusion you've come to. There is a follow up to that article I believe, which talks about how to get out of the Expert Beginner tangent.
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- RugnirViking 3y agoHow can you know? you can't really. About the best you can do is work with as many people on as many things as possible, in the hopes you come across people very skilled in things you are not, and open up new aspects to your job for you to learn. Consider that fundamentally, even the best person in the world at a given thing may be stuck on a plateau. It does happen occasionally, see female shotputters all starting to cartwheel in 2006 before it became banned. It was legal at any point in time before that, but nobody did, even though each person becoming proficient often quickly broke their personal bests.
- allo37 3y agoWell according to the article, if you're an Expert Beginner you might just end up with a checks notes... well-paying stable job and lofty title. Oh no!