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  1. Fear, shame and anxiety of unprocessed feelings - the trifecta that ruins progress and thwarts joy in life (and work).

    I am just as prone to it as anyone. Today I took a moment to write about my journey through it.

    gurupanguji.com/blog/2026/05/0

    #impostor #fear

  2. A quick reminder that itsfoss.com is the only URL for our publication. Sometimes, green is the impostor (IYKYK).

    #opensource #linux #impostor

  3. Our next #JCON2025 session is live: ' #Code #Confidence and #Conquering Self-Doubt: Breaking #Impostor Syndrome in #Tech ' with Vincent Mayers

    "Whether you think you can or you think you can't – you're right."
    This powerful insight, often linked …

    Grab your coffee and hit play: youtu.be/GNW6uERdPl0

  4. “The Famous Pakalu Papito Profile Picture Is Of A Staff Member At IITK! His Name Is Om Prakash And He Currently Works As A Technical Superintendent In The Physics Department.”, /r/IITK (old.reddit.com/r/IITK/comments).

    #PakaluPapito #Xavier #IITK #Impostor #TIL #IITKanpur

  5. Oh jeez. This is a seriously bad insider threat situation:

    Hundreds of people apparently were being treated by an impostor who used their wife's credentials to provide online therapy for Brightside Health.

    databreaches.net/2024/07/02/in

    #HIPAA #impostor #online #therapy

    via KFF News

  6. I struggle to give any credibility to a #linkedin article that uses the bizarre American spelling of "impostor". To me it's just a red line spelling error.

    Does this make the author an actual impostor? 🥁

    #spelling #impostor #protip #freedomunits

  7. You know that #impostor syndrome that happens when you stray to the edge of your comfort zone?

    When your confidence crumbles and you question: can I really have anything to contribute here?

    Fortunately, as a middle-aged white English-speaking privately-educated European cishet man who is nearly 2 metres tall I don’t get that.

    It must suck though.

  8. What's the word for "amateur among amateurs"?

    Preferably in English but will also accept German (because you know they've got, I mean make up, a word for that). 😆

    Asking for a me, looking to describe self in any area in which I dabble.

    #question #language #askMastodon #askFedi #askFediverse #impostor #ImpostorSyndrome

  9. I think about this a lot. I’ve been making my living in #bioinformatics for almost twenty years (!) with a #PhD for ten: if I’m not “good at it” by now, I’m doing something seriously wrong. But #impostor #syndrome never stops whispering in the back of my head. Probably that’s true of most competent people in most fields.

    The problem is that while self-doubt may be necessary for competence, it’s not sufficient. So you never really know.

    quora.com/Does-having-a-Ph-D-i

  10. Today in #Impostor Syndrome: I've spent much of the weekend trying to stand up a self-hosted #Bitwarden instance on a slightly old Mac (running Big Sur,) which requires a way to run Docker-compatible containers.
    I’ve been running Macs for 30+ years. I work with containers at $DAYJOB. Can’t get any of the recommended means of doing this on a Mac working.
    May need to resort to Rocky on VMWare Fusion as the host… Troubleshooting via podman or colima is a bitch.

  11. Whenever #impostor #syndrome hits, I feel like a villain in my own story. 🙎‍♀️

    Especially when I remember the that a scheduling conflict in high school led to me picking computer science and physics over biology and computer science.

    (a bioinformatics degree was what I was actually lining myself up for, *gestures at self* and look at what I've done with my life)

    #GameDev #Furry

  12. "My Job History"

    I used to be a spry young man
    Living out of a Chevy van
    And working any job I could.
    Back then I thought that I was good
    At any task I tried to tackle.
    But money has become my shackle,
    So now I mostly work from home
    And suffer from impostor syndrome.

    #MastoPrompt #impostor

    #poetry #smallpoems #poetrycommunity #work #money #experience #outdoors #freedom #economy #workfromhome #wfh

  13. Riddle:

    I’m father’s choice, but mother dotes
    On you. She bid you kill two goats
    And serve them up to win his blessing
    Impersonating me and dressing
    In their skins. You’ve been at my heels
    And cooking up deceptive meals
    Since birth. My due now goes to you…
    I sold it for a bowl of stew.

    Who are we?

    #MastoPrompt #impostor

    #riddlepoems #poetry #smallpoems #poetrycommunity #bible #oldtestament #siblingrivalry #religion #judaism #christianty

  14. @lorddimwit Is this just another attempt to support my #impostor complex and remind me that nobody can understand #Haskell without many years studying for the CS degree?

  15. 𝕄𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕕𝕠𝕟 ℙ𝕚𝕔𝕜𝕤 | 6 March 2023 - 1/2023

    The impostor syndrome - it's either this or the Dunning-Kruger effect | ▶️ infosec.exchange/@Tarah/109926

    On touch: the forgotten special sense | ▶️ mastodon.social/@colehaddon/10

    Going viral on Mastodon: bug or feature? | ▶️ mastodon.social/@waldoj/109965

    🔑 #MastodonPicks #impostor #touch #Mastodon #change #idea #inspiration #P4life #SelfHelp #software #strategy #wellness #writing

  16. Situation: I'm working on a proposal where, from a 10kft view, one of the things I want to address and improve on is (e.g.) "reusable components" or "better abstractions" for some class of functionality in a software system where there already exist a handful of commonly-used options. As a result, I'm reviewing recent related work (presentations, papers, tutorial materials), and the developers of those materials claim that their option embodies those features (e.g. "reusable and good abstractions").

    I'm having a hard time reconciling my intuitive understanding of perceived inefficiencies with the authors' claims, and I'm skeptical of both 1) dismissing their claims on the basis of my intuition being somehow more valid and 2) dismissing my intuition on account of being naive and less experienced than the authors.

    ...Ok, having written this out I'm feeling like the actual problem is that I haven't defined my problem well enough. But since we're here I'll at least ask, is there a name for this kind of thought pattern? #phd #impostor #gradstudent

  17. I thought about not being confident enough - as a product designer, writer, runner.... whatever role you like - and am confident enough for sharing what I thought and wrote about. Here it is.

    #confidence #impostor #UxDesign #ProductDesign #UxBlog #UserExperience #WomenInTech

    whitewords.io/blog/struggling-

  18. 🎧 Hörtipp zum Wochenende: Wie unterscheiden sich gelegentliche Selbstzweifel vom echten #Impostor-Phänomen, unter dem besonders mehrfach marginalisierte Menschen leiden? Ist Impostern ein gesellschaftlich gemachtes Konstrukt oder vielmehr eine Frage der persönlichen Ressourcen? Und wie kann ich diesen Gefühlen begegnen?

    Antworten gibt der @lila_podcast diesmal mit Psychologin Marlene #Kollmayer von der #UniWien. #LilaPodcast

    lila-podcast.de/wenn-man-dem-e

    📚 Lesetipp im Anschluss:
    »Hören Sie auf, Frauen Selbstzweifel einzureden« #ManagerMagazin
    manager-magazin.de/harvard/man

  19. El ataque del síndrome del impostor 😫

    Un problema mucho más común de lo que parece… pero que tiene solución 👇

    #impostor #sindrome #syndrome #NotToday