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**Erik St. Martin:** But you get bonus confidence points with the crowd when you point out what they said wrong, right? \[laughter\] That's the way it works, right? No? |
**Johnny Boursiquot:** Stop the speaker! |
**Bill Kennedy:** Oh my god! |
**Carlisia Thompson:** It doesn't work like that. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Just me? \[laughs\] |
**Carlisia Thompson:** On the same note, if you watch a conference talk on YouTube, remember to give it a thumbs up. It's nice for the speaker when they go look at their video and there's a bunch of thumbs up. If you like it, of course. |
**Erik St. Martin:** That's true too I guess in the same spirit of the Free Software Friday. Let people know. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Yeah, I have to make it a point... I forget. I watch so many YouTube videos and I forget, and I have to make a point to remember to give a thumbs up. |
**Erik St. Martin:** I have a bookmark open here and I totally forgot to talk about it when we were talking about the self-taught and autodidact thing. There's a book by a gentleman named Rob Conery and it is called The Imposter's Handbook. I haven't read the whole thing, I'll be honest there... But I've read parts of ... |
It's coming from the perspective like, if you're self-taught and you don't have the formal CS degree, and you feel inadequate when people talk big-O notation, or lambdas or P vs. NP and all that stuff. That's the frame of mind this book comes from, and it's actually really cool. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Do you have a link? |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah, I'll grab that. |
**Bill Kennedy:** It took me two full days to understand P and NP, and I still think I'm about 50% on the way there, so yeah... Those things are not easy for me, I can tell you that much. |
**Erik St. Martin:** I remember the first time somebody tried to explain the big-O notation to me... |
I remember the first time that I had to tell a colleague when he was writing a formal proof for something, and he wrote some calculus down and I had to admit that I didn't know what the weird-looking E was. \[laughter\] The summation... |
**Carlisia Thompson:** \[01:07:54.18\] That's why impostor syndrome is very serious. We all have confidence issues. On a good day we might not have any, on a bad day we might have a lot, but impostor syndrome is paralyzing, and when you have it, it makes it really hard for you to learn new things. Because you look at s... |
The whole point of it is that you have learned things, you have been accomplished, but just imagine how much more you could accomplish if you didn't have that blockage. |
**Bill Kennedy:** And I think it also helps to quickly reach out to friends. I talk to Erik and Carlisia every day... Not every day, but maybe once a week we have these types of conversations and we help each other through it. You can't suppress it down, you gotta talk about it and find people that you trust to have th... |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Absolutely, yes. |
**Erik St. Martin:** And let people push you a little bit, too. To the group here, and Brian in particular, because he's known me the longest - everybody's been slowly pushing me, like "You gotta do this, you gotta do this, you gotta do this..." So let people push you a little bit out of your comfort zone. |
Adam's hiding behind the forth wall here, but Adam has tried to get me on camera for two, three years for GopherCon, for kind of like grand vision and love and experience and behind-the-curtains type stuff, sharing with the world, and it's like, "Nope. Camera? Run!" |
**Carlisia Thompson:** I wanna second that... Make sure you have or you develop a group of friends that you can have safe conversations with, that when you're in doubt and you're doubting yourself, you can go back and say, "Hey, I'm having a really hard time with this, but I need to move on. What do I do?" |
You don't need the right question, you just say, "I'm having a hard time", and they'll help you move on. I have people that I do this with, like you were saying. With the GoTime co-hosts and producers - we talk a lot about this stuff, and other people too that I have as resources. It really helps make a difference. |
**Bill Kennedy:** Something that I tell a lot of people too, if this is holding you back at some level - I have a mild form of Tourette's... My daughter has it more advanced, with vocal ticks. She's amazing... She's in college and she deals with that. I have a mild form of Tourette's, and when I get really nervous, it ... |
I've shown Erik a video and Erik's like, "I don't see anything", and I'm like, "Dude, look at this, this, this and this." So if you also feel like "Maybe I have - not necessarily Tourette's, but some sort of handicap and that's gonna cause me to have problems, I'll also try to fight through that as well", if this is so... |
**Erik St. Martin:** I think we've had a long engaging discussion here and ran through time, so we'll skip over the projects and news. Does anybody have something they wanna do for \#FreeSoftwareFriday? |
**Johnny Boursiquot:** Yeah, I have one quick thing. |
**Erik St. Martin:** \[01:11:52.28\] Okay, hold on... Before we move on to that, let me just kind of close out the last thing. So we talked about this breaking out of your shell... Let's make 2017 that year, everybody. I wanna see everybody try to submit some talks or speak at meetups, or start meetups and just kind of... |
**Johnny Boursiquot:** Agreed, let's do it! |
**Erik St. Martin:** So on that, \#FreeSoftwareFriday. Johnny, you had something? |
**Johnny Boursiquot:** Yeah, I've been using this window management tool - a sort of without a keyboard kind of thing - for a long, long time; it's called Spectacle. You can go to SpectacleApp.com, I believe. and you'll be able to download it. It's a quick and easy way to just use your keyboard, to just slide windows t... |
**Erik St. Martin:** That's awesome. This is for Mac? |
**Johnny Boursiquot:** Yes. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Awesome! I need to remember that, because I've always been looking for apps to do window management when I'm on my Mac. Alright, who's next? |
**Carlisia Thompson:** I can go next. This week somebody showed me a tool that is like Go Playground, but for Docker, and it's really cool. This tool was made by [Marcos Nils](https://www.twitter.com/marcosnils)... I'm sure I'm not saying his last name correctly, sorry Marcos. He's from Argentina. He did this tool - it... |
**Erik St. Martin:** No, I haven't seen it either. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** There's the link on the channel. |
**Erik St. Martin:** How about you, Bill? |
**Bill Kennedy:** This past week I've spent a lot of time with Daniel Whitenack working on our data science class, and been learning a lot about Pachyderm and a lot of the data science packages like gonum. It's amazing to me what's being developed in this area right now. What I'm learning - because I didn't know anythi... |
**Erik St. Martin:** Awesome. Alright, so I have something that is similar, but different to Johnny's... It's called Polybar. If you listen to this show, you know that I am a huge Linux and i3 window manager fan... So it has like a title bar that has the workspaces in there and things like that, that are standard. But ... |
Before we close out the show - Johnny, you've got a shoutout? |
**Johnny Boursiquot:** Yes, I do actually. My first one is really to the Baltimore Go community. I recently relocated from Boston after spending 13 years there; I was a co-organizer for Boston Golang and Boston Ruby. Upon relocating down to Maryland, I needed some new tech friends, so I figured, "Hey, there's no better... |
\[01:16:07.24\] My last shoutout is to you - yes, you, the one listening to this show right now, that's dealing with impostor syndrome, and you're sort of thinking, "Okay, how do I muster up the energy and the courage to rise above it?" Know that you are not alone. The internet's got lots of resources... Take advantage... |
**Erik St. Martin:** I'd like to add to that... There's likely nobody on this show that is less secure than you. Or... Yeah. Man, double negative's are hard! \[laughter\] But everybody here on this show is just as insecure. Some of us more than others, but there's nobody on this show that feels confident in all of thei... |
And back to our point before \#FreeSoftwareFriday, make 2017 the year that you step out of your shell and get out in front of people, even if it's a five-minute lightning talk. Meetup organizers, organize lighting talk night, where every talk that night is lightning talks. No one person talking the whole meetup, just t... |
**Johnny Boursiquot:** So helpful... Let's do that. |
**Erik St. Martin:** With that, I think it's time to wrap up the show. I want to thank everybody who's here on the show, especially coming in and sharing your deep personal fears and feelings on things. Huge shoutout to our sponsors, StackImpact and Backtrace - without them, we couldn't keep doing this show, so definit... |
Definitely share this show with fellow Go programmers. This one isn't necessarily just Go, so if you know somebody who has impostor syndrome, send them this episode... Have them join and listen to every episode. We are GoTime.fm on the web - if you haven't subscribed yet. We are @GoTimeFM on Twitter. github.com/gotimef... |
**Bill Kennedy:** Goodbye! |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Bye! This was fun! |
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