Confidence is Overrated

[rva_jeremy]

This is really relevant to me. I'm 15 years into my software development career, and I think this puts a very fine point on one of the things that I misjudge about the nature of my job. Technologies change so often in my world that nobody has much call to be confident for very long. There's a lot of arrogance and overconfidence and arbitrary opinions masquerading as expertise.

One can't always know what one's doing given how volatile things are. But one can wake up every day, go into the office, and courageously jump into the problem at hand with all one's mind and heart. More and more I'm starting to understand that this is the real talent, and that writing and architecting code is more of the baggage one brings along from deeper and higher dives.

Thanks for posting this!