Imposter Syndrome with Rob Conery
Are you an imposter? Carl and Richard talk to Rob Conery about his battle with imposter syndrome - starting with a definition. Rob talks about how often folks that don't have formal computing science education feel like they are faking it when it comes to software development, no matter how significant their contributions are. And part of his process for dealing with his own issues was to write a book on the subject - self-published. One of the focuses of the book is to dig into core concepts in computing science that are actually valuable in your day-to-day development efforts, such as estimating the difficulty of a computing problem or describing core algorithmic concepts. Learn from the smart people that have come before in computing!
Guests:
Rob Conery
Rob Conery works at Microsoft with the VS Code team, creating content for YouTube as well as contributing to open source projects. Rob is also the author of The Imposter’s Handbook, The Imposter’s Roadmap, and A Curious Moon, which is one of Richard’s favorite books because of the ending.
Links:
- Cyfe Dashboard Tools http://try.cyfe.com/home-cvc/
- Imposters Handbook https://bigmachine.io/products/the-imposters-handbook/
- Imposters Handbook on GitHub https://github.com/imposters-handbook
- GitBook https://www.gitbook.com/
- GumRoad https://gumroad.com/
- Drip https://www.drip.co/
- Imposter Syndrome Blog Post http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ImAPhonyAreYou.aspx
- Rob's GitHub https://github.com/robconery
- Dexter Palmer Version Control http://dexterpalmer.com/
- NodaTime http://nodatime.org/