Come listen to me, I’m a fraud! A story on success
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Fifteen years in IT and CTO of a 1200+ person company yet still feeling like a fraud, describes concrete tactics that work: built an FPV drone from parts and rebuilt it after a crash to practice failing without consequences, keeps a log of compliments and brags about two achievements VCDX and the book "Digital First Events", uses Tim Urban’s procrastination model, NLP-style filter reframing, pair reviews and asking colleagues to show planning, and practicing honest vulnerability per Brené Brown.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:14Early career struggles
- 8:51Impostor syndrome in IT
- 13:23Moving goalpost of knowledge
- 21:04Reframing self-perception
- 23:23Procrastination and instant gratification
- 27:20Asking for help
- 30:48Hobbies as safe space
- 33:57Overcoming limiting beliefs
- 35:39Conclusion
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