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Every company wants you to believe you're lucky to be there. The people telling you this is the best place you'll ever work? Maybe they believe it. But power changes perspective.
Google was my first job - how was I supposed to know any different? The message was: you'll never be happy anywhere else. Leaving was scary.
But it was great for my career and my mental health. Half a year into taking ano

11 views Every company wants you to believe you're lucky to be there. The people telling you this is the best place you'll ever work? Maybe they believe it. But power changes perspective. Google was my first job - how was I supposed to know any different? The message was: you'll never be happy anywhere else. Leaving was scary. But it was great for my career and my mental health. Half a year into taking ano

I reject the concept of impostor syndrome.
It's a term used to pathologise women and other underrepresented people for a rational response to being in an industry that doesn't welcome us.
If you feel like you're not good enough - is it a skill gap, or is it people making you feel like you don't belong?
One you can work on. The other is about them, not you 👩🏻‍💻

6 views I reject the concept of impostor syndrome. It's a term used to pathologise women and other underrepresented people for a rational response to being in an industry that doesn't welcome us. If you feel like you're not good enough - is it a skill gap, or is it people making you feel like you don't belong? One you can work on. The other is about them, not you 👩🏻‍💻

Thinking about misogyny in tech and my complicated feelings about AI.
Jobs most vulnerable to AI displacement are disproportionately held by women and people of color.
And yet - nothing has helped my confidence as a developer more than Claude helping with config and answering questions without ever implying I'm stupid.
Short term: is AI failing to have impact because the people who made work actua

1 views Thinking about misogyny in tech and my complicated feelings about AI. Jobs most vulnerable to AI displacement are disproportionately held by women and people of color. And yet - nothing has helped my confidence as a developer more than Claude helping with config and answering questions without ever implying I'm stupid. Short term: is AI failing to have impact because the people who made work actua

📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

0.3%

Engagement vs followers

Dec 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: Every company wants you to believe you're lucky to be there. The · 11 likes + reposts

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Posting cadence

4.5 / week

Posts several times a week.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 8 text · 1 image · 3 video.

Follower / following

12×

Follows 115 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

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▶ 🔥 Top post Every company wants you to believe you're lucky to be there. The people telling you this is the best place you'll ever work? Maybe they believe it. But power changes perspective. Google was my first job - how was I supposed to know any different? The message was: you'll never be… ★ 11

We've decided, again, that we don't need managers. At the exact moment there's more of that work to do than ever. Scaling has always been about finding and removing bottlenecks. The ordering and priority have changed dramatically. Your pla… ★ 2

Claude getting dramatic about me hitting the token limit 😆

▶ I reject the concept of impostor syndrome. It's a term used to pathologise women and other underrepresented people for a rational response to being in an industry that doesn't welcome us. If you feel like you're not good enough - is it a… ★ 6 I don't believe the route to work-life balance is doing less work. I think it's by doing more life. The busy weeks when you're tempted to cancel everything fun to accommodate? That's when you need a schedule in your personal life the most.… ★ 2 The engineer's response to feeling bad about something: what can I build, and what data would make the feeling go away. Six months of trying to measure my way out of the ick of self-promotion. Mixed results, but progress at least. https://… ★ 1 Climate change denial was invented by someone with air conditioning 😭 ★ 6

▶ Thinking about misogyny in tech and my complicated feelings about AI. Jobs most vulnerable to AI displacement are disproportionately held by women and people of color. And yet - nothing has helped my confidence as a developer more than Cla… ★ 1 A lot of courses promise to change your life. @jyhsu and I don't do that. What we've seen across two cohorts of DRI Your Career: people think differently, and then they take action. Which means, sometimes, they change their own lives. Nex… ★ 1 Fable is no longer included after today, and if you - like me - nearly let that window pass because you were busy and/or didn't want to get attached to it, here's the suggestion that broke through my inertia and produced something useful. … ★ 4 Trying to read a physical book and it's so inconvenient. There's no backlight. I can't clean it with a dettol wipe. And I keep dropping it on my head. ★ 4 Never heard someone describe their workplace as "hunger games" until recently. What a messed up system. The relief of being in a no-drama small startup, where the only thing in abundance is work. This month's newsletter, on the game - you … ★ 4

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Home server

hachyderm.io

A tech & engineering server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.

On Mastodon since

Dec 2022

Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.

👁️Averages 4 views per post.

📤Posts about 4.5× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

43/100

Fair Credibility score

73%

Mixed Real audience

Medium Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 73% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
Low engagement (~0.3% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
Established account (3+ years old).

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

engineering director. coach. quantum particle. in search of adventure; it’s probably fine ✨ Author of The Engineering Leader, published by O'Reilly

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