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, GitHub, X
• Bill Kennedy – Website, GitHub, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• This episode is direct product of listening to our listeners
• Erik faced his biggest fear and gave this talk at KubeCon
• The Imposter’s Handbook by Rob Conery comes highly recommended
• Check out #speaking in Gopher Slack

Free Software Friday

• Erik - Polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar
• Carlisia - Play With Docker / 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 lets you store and analyze your data using containers. All things gonum
• Johnny - Spectacle allows you to organize your windows without using a mouse.

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