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by pm 4571 days ago
To clarify, I've been many of these simultaneously, and I'm not sure that it's changed much; different circumstances bring out different aspects.

Apparently, I'm a melting pot of neuroses.

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> Apparently, I'm a melting pot of neuroses.

It's great to be a human, isn't it?

Don't forget impostor syndrome! It sounds as if you're hard on yourself, possibly for that reason.
Nah, I got a handle on that a while ago. I know my skills and I know myself, it's just sobering to see so many of my motivations and behaviours described accurately. If I was convinced these programmer aspects were entirely negative, I would've succumbed to the debilitating effects of impostor syndrome years ago.