Have you ever received praise, or even an award, for being great at something despite having no clue what you’re doing? No. I have to know years worth of mount

Have you ever received praise, or even an award, for being great at something despite having no clue what you’re doing? No. I have to know years worth of mountains worth of knowledge and skills to get even the slightest nod from anybody. Most software people don't give away praise for free. Do you feel like a fraud...? No. I'm a good programmer, my job is to program things, and my employers seem to have agreed. Like many people here, I've made lots of shit that works, and made lots of customers happy. Shit you don't know you don't know only matters when it matters. And when it starts to matter, it moves into the shit you know you don't know category, and hopefully with some effort into the shit you know category. A single human being can't know much, so out of necessity we act like a cache. We also tend to work in teams. I frequently encounter problems I can't solve, that a 3-minute back-and-forth discussion with the two nearest coworkers does solve.