Johnny Boursiquot and Bill Kennedy joined the show with Erik and Carlisia to talk about a hard subject — Imposter Syndrome. Not often enough do we get to have open conversations about the eventual inadequacies we all face at some point in our career; some more often than others. You are !imposter.

Johnny Boursiquot and Bill Kennedy joined the show with Erik and Carlisia to talk about a hard subject — Imposter Syndrome. Not often enough do we get to have open conversations about the eventual inadequacies we all face at some point in our career; some more often than others. You are !imposter.

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Featuring:


Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteBill Kennedy – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteErik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHubCarlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:



This episode is direct product of listening to our listeners
Erik faced his biggest fear and gave this talk at KubeCon
The Imposter’s Handbook by Rob Conery comes highly recommended
Check out #speaking in Gopher Slack

Free Software Friday

Erik - Polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar
Carlisia - Play With Docker / play-with-docker.com gives you the experience of having a free Alpine Linux Virtual Machine in the cloud where you can build and run Docker containers and even create clusters with Docker features like Swarm Mode.)
Bill - Pachyderm lets you store and analyze your data using containers. All things gonum
Johnny - Spectacle allows you to organize your windows without using a mouse.

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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