RC Day 3 - Starting a new project and confronting my old friend, imposter syndrome
Project Stuff
I started to think about building a ruby version of leetle. I spent some of today thinking through what that might look like and what could be the most bare-bones useful version of it.
Work Process Notes
Pomodoro was super helpful today. I was feeling pretty distracted and overwhelmed with a lot of different feelings about my career, my abilities, and the identity shift after becoming a parent. I want to make sure I actually start tackling something so it was great to have something that worked. I didn’t get a ton accomplished, but am starting to pick up some steam.
Thoughts on getting started
I had a ton of imposter syndrome come up today and really, all this week. I realize that I have had a tough year, and some of my past experiences are creeping into my thoughts about my work and even whether I really belong in this field. It's not always accurate to group all of these feelings into the term imposter syndrome. Some of them have to do with identity, with industry-wide practices, my personal history and life context and all kinds of other factors. But it’s useful to name the group of thoughts and feelings that have been plaguing me this week.