Interested in solving human problems through technology (she/her). So this one time at boot camp...
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Just mentioned the dumpster fire of current events to a group of technologists and got laughed at with a round of ”idk what’s going on, ignorance is bliss” as if I’m silly for paying attention? Bet
I love that you don’t stop talking about your brother. I’m only 11 months into losing mine and people make me feel like they want me to be “over it”. And thank you for the tour, I caught you at home (Chicago) and it fed my soul. I wasn’t the lady you had to tell to hush tho!
So I’m pretty strong, but my joints aren’t. Today I was able to do my reverse lunges unmodified and I’m ridiculously proud of that progress.
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CASTING CALL: I had a team drop out, so I need 2 devs on short notice to join an episode of Web Dev Challenge in Portland on Oct 21–23
TimescaleDB and sensor data challenge. if that sounds like fun, grab a friend and slide into my DMs ASAP! 💜
I’ve reached the stage where I’m just so curious to see how it all plays out. I’ve got so many theories and opinions but it won’t be too long before we know where this ends up. My strongest skill is surviving so I’ve set down the worry. But I’m so curious.
A wonderful thing about falling apart is the freedom to leave the pieces that don’t serve you where they lay when you decide to pull yourself together.
Good things that happened to me over the last year:
- more love
- life
- over $100k of student loans wiped out
- landed a great job at a solid org
- dropped 46lbs, strength 📈
- Ben Johnson
- paid all cc debt
- found new books I love
- therapy
- coffee
- self remembrance
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The smarter you are, the more you realize most arguments aren’t about facts, they’re about protecting fragile egos that can’t survive reality.
So do I talk about how I’ve been using humbleness to mask fear or is that too much earnestness for new Twitter?
This coupled with the idea of“but that’s just the job, I did the job, that’s not special?” despite how well I might perform at any given task is going to be the death of me.
The past few weeks made me realize why I've done so bad during my interviews. I have this weird habit of down playing the work I've done at previous companies.
It's not even because I'm insecure or anything, but I'd compact years of work into a one-liner and wonder why no one is impressed with my stories 😭
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I've been thinking about this a lot. I see a pull toward more customized & free-form learning paths. Engineers still value instruction and expert reviews are more valuable than ever, but they also want the freedom to connect what they're learning right to what they want to build.
Dilemma - ai moves too fast for my past preferred learning methods and it feels like ai is the best thing to help me go deeper, but I only “trust“ ai when I have at least a foundational understanding.
Any of y’all figured this out yet? Or do I just dive in and validate?