And as a matter of fact, the SLII development model (which we were required to take a course on as Microsoft managers) says that your confidence is expected to initially decrease as your competence increases, until you reach an equilibrium as you fully master a skill. And then: on to the next skill!
Anyone who says they never experience imposter syndrome makes me nervous because to me it suggests that they are leaning all the way in to Dunning Kruger.
As you walk the path of your career, if you step a little to the left you have imposter syndrome and it is visible to you and not others, while if you step a little to the right you have Dunning-Kruger and it is visible to others and not to you. This is natural.
My gender is on my passport and my driver's license, but it is not necessary for the transactions they are designed to deal with. My gender is not on my social security card, my credit cards, my gym membership card, or my student IDs when I had those. It's not even on my health insurance card.
Listen, and this is a real question: why do we indicate gender on driver's licenses anyway?
Joy is an act of resistance. And this is that:
Browsing Google groups at work and finding one that shows activity of "less than 280 messages per day"
Google search content reading "Apple's Liquid Glass is a 2025 Ul design language for iOS 26 and other platforms, featuring a, translucent, and, dynamic, interface, that, mimics, physical, glass. Introduced at WWDC25, it utilizes real-time rendering to blur backgrounds, reflect ambient colors, and create interactive,, gel- like,,,elements that, morph, and, move, upon, touch"
Watch as Gemini adds more and more commas as it progresses through this answer
Everyone who worked at this camp should go to prison.
its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
A career update! This week I joined @yugabytedb.bsky.social as Sr Dir of PM for the Core Database. Happy to be working on OSS and data again :)
Macbeth: SHIT
Seahawks ๐
A Life360 notification that Seattle arrived at the End Zone
Ok well.played Life360
How many dogs do you have to find to offset selling out your neighbors to ICE?
No kings but Bad Bunny
Did Microsoft just run a Superbowl ad implying using Copilot to make hiring decisions?
Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
RULE ONE: Find a place you trust, and then try trusting it for awhile. RULE TWO: General duties of a student: pull everything out of your teacher; pull everything out of your fellow students. RULE THREE: General duties of a teacher: pull everything out of your students. RULE FOUR: Consider everything an experiment. RULE FIVE: Be self-disciplined: this means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way. RULE SIX: Nothing is a mistake. Thereโs no win and no fail, thereโs only make. RULE SEVEN: The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. Itโs the people who do all of the work all of the time who eventually catch on to things. RULE EIGHT: Dont try to create and analyze at the same time. Theyโre different processes. RULE NINE: Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. Itโs lighter than you think. RULE TEN: Weโre breaking all the rules. Even our own rules. And how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.
I wrote it out on my whiteboard when I went to turn in my blue badge
Trying to help kiddo set up VR link with Meta Quest and it's buggy as shit. Companies are laying off workers and just letting products rot in full view.
Pinterest says "there's a clear line between constructive debate and behavior that's obstructionist."
.... obstructing what, exactly?
Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50
Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
Online search logic is all "I see you are looking for a bass clarinet to rent, so maybe you would like a French horn to purchase?"
i'm being flip but when i think about the guys who are gassing preschools and putting children in camps and killing people both on and off camera--complaining about WHISTLES--i understand why dante was like no, we need way more kinds of hell. at least nine
"[...] having known someone only as a child and then hearing they were gunned down [...] The person you see in your mind lying in that street is still a child. I'm sure his mother feels that way, too, or she sees him at every age all at once, including those he did not live to see."
A bearded man in nurse's scrubs offers aid to Justice, wearing a blindfold and holding a sword and scales, who has fallen to her knees.
Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...
A LinkedIn ad reading: U.S. Customs and Border Protection Promoted If you thrive in high-energy environments, U.S. Border Patrol needs you. Physical fitness, teamwork, and... (more) The image below shows people in a gym and reads: BE AN AGENT OF STRENGTH STAY FIT, STAY SHARP, SERVE PROUDLY AS A CBP BORDER PATROL AGENT JOIN THE MISSION
No matter how many times I tell LinkedIn to stop, it keeps showing me recruitment ads for CBP.
Microsoft has confirmed it will hand over BitLocker encryption recovery keys to the FBI. You definitely should not be accepting Microsoftโs default of storing BitLocker keys in the cloud when signing into Windows with an MS account www.theverge.com/news/867244/...
Gotchaโletโs dig into that step by step.
1. ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ป๐ผ ๐บ๐ผ๐๐๐ต, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. Youโre not just immobileโyouโre immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐บ. That makes total senseโitโs a natural human impulse, and youโve been through a lot.
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