And you are here why?

Many many   many   years ago - during the DotCom era - I was at a company that unicorn-ed overnight. Mind you, before the craziness, we were a   tiny  company, a handful of people at that. But then - DotCom bubble, websites, and   BOOM! , we were growing like mad. It was pretty awesome, I have to tell ya 🤗 At the time, I was young, full of beans, and pretty certain that the world revolved around me. And the hyper-growth certainly only served to accentuate this - after all, it was obvious that I had something to do with all of our success, right? Somewhere along the way, we brought in a couple of people who were, well, capable of doing what I was doing. And, what’s worse, they had been doing it for a lot longer, and at a much larger scale, than I was. Thing is, I  knew  that I was better, stronger, faster than them, I just needed some way of showing everybody that I was all that and a bag of chips. And I needed to do it  right damn now  becau...

The great ones make it all seem so easy, don’t they? And, mind you, it’s not just the Usain Bolts of the world, it’s some of the folks that you work with, who barely break a sweat, and make you feel so … unworthy. • There’s the  golang  code that you’ve been struggling with, that you can’t  quite  get to work right, and Alice, after a brief look, suggests a library that you didn’t even know existed, but does just what you need. • During the standup, Bob points out that you might be missing a critical ( and undocumented! ) customer requirement, and it turns out he was right! HowTF would he even know this? • Carol, who comes up with an obscure variation on traversing DAGs which takes care of the requirement. But good grief, where did she learn  that stuff? I mean, how do they all make it seem so  easy ? It’s surely natural talent, right? I mean, they’re clearly wicked smart, it must be so awesome to be able to coast through life on that level ...