You are the best they got: Overcoming Imposter syndrome

In the tech industry, everything moves fast. A tool that worked perfectly yesterday is broken today. A technology that you relied on suddenly shifted its license and now you have to move to a competing technology. You’re constantly being asked to conjure up new solutions to problems that involve vocabulary terms you’ve never heard of. It’s a lot, and it’s not for everyone. But here’s the rub. Because you’re constantly in a state where you don’t know the exact syntax of a new language you need to use or you’re fumbling to find the words that you just learned yesterday, it can quickly make you feel like you don’t know anything. ...

January 28, 2025 · 5 min