Impostor syndrome

Let's talk about something most developers feel at some point, but not many enjoy admitting out loud: impostor syndrome . You know the feeling: someone calls you a senior and asks for your opinion. Or, even worse, trusts you with an important task, and your brain immediately goes: "OK, OK, act cool... but what if they find out I actually have no idea what I'm doing?" That's exactly what my friend and I discussed in our podcast episode. We dug into what impostor syndrome looks like in real life, how it shows up for developers specifically, and why it may not be entirely bad news . In fact, a bit of that healthy discomfort can be the thing that keeps us learning, improving, and not turning into complacent keyboard zombies. You can listen to the episode here if you'd like, and below is the TL;DR for folks that still read in "this day and age" of summarization tools and whatnot 😅 🤗 1. Most of us compare our backstage to everyone else's highlight reel One of the most useful ideas in the epi