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by SwiftyBug 816 days ago
Not very long ago I was exactly where you are now. The only difference is that I'm 5 years older than you. I've been trying something new: don't try to be something. Just go and do things you need to do. To me that's work, being a good developer, feeling like one of the HN crowd. I still don't feel any of that, so I just keep doing what I'm doing. Of course I try to learn a little every day, of course I try to improve my skills. I'm just not worried anymore about improving at a pace as fast as I think I should. Because the pace I believe I should be improving is humanly impossible. The problem is that I feel like if I'm not a Genius, I'm nothing. So I just shrug off those thoughts and I keep doing. Just do.