Posts tagged ‘imposter syndrome’

I need to stop assuming that everyone else knows more about the tech than I do. Our sense of our own merit gets calibrated by feedback from the outside world, but sexism and impostor syndrome get in the way of that calibration. All the tentacles of this issue — the prejudice, the tokenization, the distorted self-perception, the discounting of one’s achievements and comparative lionization of others’ — bother me because they mess with proper judgement.

The other night I went to a hacking meetup for the first time in months. It’s usually an informal Python learnfest, and as I’m refreshing my Python basics, I went with the assumption that I’d ...

In anticipation of a December/January slowdown, we’re reposting some older writing for the benefit of new (and nostalgic!) readers. This piece originally appeared on Apr 14, 2010. This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question: ...

Linda Holmes talks about ‘Scott Pilgrim’ Versus The Unfortunate Tendency To Review The Audience. Choice quote: Here’s what I’m saying: I’m a woman, I’m in my late thirties, I can’t handle first-person shooters, I’m afraid ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question: How do you keep up your inner reserves of self-confidence? It seems like a certain amount of “irrational” self-confidence is necessary for success in geeky fields. STEM ...