category: social
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OH: Confessions of a Tweet Thief
Most of my developer friends who have achieved any amount of public recognition or notoriety have reported experiencing some measure of impostor syndrome. They feel that they have garnered a reputation that surpasses their actual level of competence and contribution. It always brings me great comfort to hear this, because I feel the same way. Or am I just pretending so that I’ll feel more like one of them? 😉
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Compassion-Driven Development
I have been developing software for a pretty long time now. I have worked on a lot of systems in a lot of different environments. In several of these places my orientation process included a visit to the place where the end users were, a call center or client site or whatever, to see what they did and how they used the system. Oddly enough, this usually happened once when I first started, but pretty much never again.
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