This was an interesting post, and as an older person in the industry, I feel sad for the current times, and where this person landed. Should this person have landed 20+ years ago, it would have been a much more enriching journey.
When I started, the industry was opaque to most, you got in as an intern with the knowledge that you knew nothing. Information was shared freely, things were shown to you. There was none of that third degree shaming "You don't even know about X?".
People understood the technology under their own work. They understood that things were complicated and hard. They didn't act like they could do it all, overnight.
I hope that this industry turns it around, and refocus on the prime objective: being nerds. Being excited about milliseconds improvements, excited about the small things, discovering and learning through curiosity... and not being insecure cockwits, that have to jam their superiority in other's face at every occasion because they, deeply, know how replaceable they really are.
The paragraphs about git were interesting, in the sense that the author, also suffers from the industry's "I'm right and you're wrong" motto; and that is the reason, by the looks, that they've left. There is some unresolved conflict there! "I'm tired of people acting like rockstars", and proceeds on a rant doing the same thing.
I suggest you never use those terms of affirmation and ask questions instead. Asking questions is the best way to get an imposter off their track. And if this person actually knows what they're talking about, the answer will enrich you.
When I started, the industry was opaque to most, you got in as an intern with the knowledge that you knew nothing. Information was shared freely, things were shown to you. There was none of that third degree shaming "You don't even know about X?".
People understood the technology under their own work. They understood that things were complicated and hard. They didn't act like they could do it all, overnight.
I hope that this industry turns it around, and refocus on the prime objective: being nerds. Being excited about milliseconds improvements, excited about the small things, discovering and learning through curiosity... and not being insecure cockwits, that have to jam their superiority in other's face at every occasion because they, deeply, know how replaceable they really are.
The paragraphs about git were interesting, in the sense that the author, also suffers from the industry's "I'm right and you're wrong" motto; and that is the reason, by the looks, that they've left. There is some unresolved conflict there! "I'm tired of people acting like rockstars", and proceeds on a rant doing the same thing.
I suggest you never use those terms of affirmation and ask questions instead. Asking questions is the best way to get an imposter off their track. And if this person actually knows what they're talking about, the answer will enrich you.