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 helps developers of all sorts learn what's new with technology. He has been working in the technology field full time since 1998 as a DBA and then a web developer. Rob's original focus was the Microsoft ASP.NET stack, building tools like Subsonic and the first Micro-ORM: Massive. He also authored MassiveJS, a dedicated PostgreSQL data access tool for Node which he ported to Elixir and named it Moebius. Rob is also the author of The Imposter's Handbook, which is a compendium of skills and concepts that you need to know as a self-taught programmer. Things like Complexity Theory (P vs NP), Big-O notation, Database theory, Algorithms and more.
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/