Discussing Imposter Syndrome

Johnny Boursiquot and Bill Kennedy joined the show with Erik and Carlisia to talk about a hard subject — Imposter Syndrome. Not often enough do we get to have open conversations about the eventual inadequacies we all face at some point in our career; some more often than others. You are !imposter.

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Featuring:

• Johnny Boursiquot – Website (https://www.jboursiquot.com/), GitHub (https://github.com/jboursiquot), X (https://x.com/jboursiquot) • Bill Kennedy – Website (https://www.goinggo.net/), GitHub (https://github.com/ardan-bkennedy), X (https://x.com/goinggodotnet) • Erik St. Martin – GitHub (https://github.com/erikstmartin), X (https://x.com/erikstmartin) • Carlisia Thompson – GitHub (https://github.com/carlisia), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlisia), X (https://x.com/carlisia)

Show Notes:

• This episode is direct product of listening to our listeners (https://github.com/GoTimeFM/ping/issues/12)

• Erik faced his biggest fear and gave this talk at KubeCon (https://www.linux.com/news/learn/kubernetes/kubernetes-helps-comcast-re-engineer-cable-tv)

• The Imposter’s Handbook (https://bigmachine.io/products/the-imposters-handbook/) by Rob Conery comes highly recommended

• Check out #speaking in Gopher Slack

Free Software Friday

• Erik - Polybar (https://github.com/jaagr/polybar) - A fast and easy-to-use status bar

• Carlisia - Play With Docker (https://github.com/franela/play-with-docker/) / play-with-docker.com (http://play-with-docker.com/) gives you the experience of having a free Alpine Linux Virtual Machine in the cloud where you can build and run Docker containers and even create clusters with Docker features like Swarm Mode.)

• Bill - Pachyderm (https://www.pachyderm.io/) lets you store and analyze your data using containers. All things gonum (https://github.com/gonum)

• Johnny - Spectacle (https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle) allows you to organize your windows without using a mouse.

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome! (https://github.com/thechangelog/show-notes/blob/master/gotime/go-time-30.md)