I love the honesty here. I've often felt the same way, tbh.
I find there are also other fallacies on the mix affecting my own self-judgment, e.g.: 1. when I see lots of people making lots of cool things, I tend to think I should be making *everything* everyone else is building on top of my normal work, which is obviously impossible (some sort of twist on the composition fallacy), 2. you don't see how long it took them to build the project, only the output - it easily may have taken months for them to build something, and the social media post just makes it seem effortless
also, good to remember that for some people (esp those in dev rel or some founders), doing this well is sometimes their main job, period. so of course they'll be exceptional at it 🙂
totally! it's hard to feel permission to be just kinda mediocre or even shitty at something when the other people i see doing it are, like you said, literally doing this type of thing well as a job full time, haha.
I love the honesty here. I've often felt the same way, tbh.
I find there are also other fallacies on the mix affecting my own self-judgment, e.g.: 1. when I see lots of people making lots of cool things, I tend to think I should be making *everything* everyone else is building on top of my normal work, which is obviously impossible (some sort of twist on the composition fallacy), 2. you don't see how long it took them to build the project, only the output - it easily may have taken months for them to build something, and the social media post just makes it seem effortless
also, good to remember that for some people (esp those in dev rel or some founders), doing this well is sometimes their main job, period. so of course they'll be exceptional at it 🙂
totally! it's hard to feel permission to be just kinda mediocre or even shitty at something when the other people i see doing it are, like you said, literally doing this type of thing well as a job full time, haha.