How to Reduce Unpleasant Insecure Feelings

Don't fake it. Don't walk around and pretend that you know when you in fact don't know because I actually think that feeds the imposter syndrome. There's a happy medium in terms of advertising his lack of technical skill and his novice status. He probably wants to err on the side of acknowledging that he's not a super technical person and he's going to need some learning curve and some help with this. And then ask really smart questions.