That was awesome. This sent my mind down some odd paths. I'm just like Dan Abramov except for knowing a lot less. In my blog and StackOverflow answers, though, I try to project experience and knowledge. That makes sense. After all, we tend to write about what we know.
It's a little bit like social media. We post pictures of ourselves having fun with friends and going to cool places. If we're sitting home alone eating junk food we don't share that. Collectively it creates the illusion that everyone is doing awesome stuff surrounded by friends.
In the same way, people doing what they know and writing blogs about it inadvertently creates the illusion that we're surrounded by people who know everything. We participate by adding our insecurity-fueled flawed perceptions. We might never consciously realize that the person who writes about some specific React component and the one who writes about containers and the other who just created his own blogging platform are all different people. In our minds they become this composite developer who knows everything we don't.
Totally sideways: There are more male than female developers. Is this largely a man problem, like not asking for directions? I imagine that women have the same concerns as men do, but is unintentionally (or intentionally) projecting a know-it-all image a man thing?
Collectively it creates the illusion that everyone is doing awesome stuff surrounded by friends.
Yeah, that illusion of grandeur that feeds the fear of missing out in other people.
We might never consciously realize that the person who writes about some specific React component and the one who writes about containers and the other who just created his own blogging platform are all different people. In our minds they become this composite developer who knows everything we don't.
That's a great way to put it! We take bits and pieces about other people lives we like and create this Frankestein-meta-human we aspire to be, except that it doesn't exist
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That was awesome. This sent my mind down some odd paths. I'm just like Dan Abramov except for knowing a lot less. In my blog and StackOverflow answers, though, I try to project experience and knowledge. That makes sense. After all, we tend to write about what we know.
It's a little bit like social media. We post pictures of ourselves having fun with friends and going to cool places. If we're sitting home alone eating junk food we don't share that. Collectively it creates the illusion that everyone is doing awesome stuff surrounded by friends.
In the same way, people doing what they know and writing blogs about it inadvertently creates the illusion that we're surrounded by people who know everything. We participate by adding our insecurity-fueled flawed perceptions. We might never consciously realize that the person who writes about some specific React component and the one who writes about containers and the other who just created his own blogging platform are all different people. In our minds they become this composite developer who knows everything we don't.
Totally sideways: There are more male than female developers. Is this largely a man problem, like not asking for directions? I imagine that women have the same concerns as men do, but is unintentionally (or intentionally) projecting a know-it-all image a man thing?
Yeah, that illusion of grandeur that feeds the fear of missing out in other people.
That's a great way to put it! We take bits and pieces about other people lives we like and create this Frankestein-meta-human we aspire to be, except that it doesn't exist