Posts tagged ‘tips’

What’s working to help me learn to program? Gamification, with some caveats…

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 ...

Successful women often suffer from impostor syndrome. As wiredferret succinctly explains, Imposter Syndrome is the pervasive feeling that whatever success or acclaim you might have, it’s all a cosmic accident, and other people really are ...

From Indie Craft Gossip I heard about a huge pattern archive with pictures and data on sewing patterns from the U.S. dating back to 1860. There aren’t any instructions for sewing, but the pictures and ...

Allyson Kapin has a post over on Fast Company, entitled Where are the women in tech and social media? in which she talks about the dearth of women speakers at tech conferences. She offers a ...