April 2009
Microsoft sales fall for first time in 23 years →
suckafuck:
Molly and I were talking about this earlier… People used to think that computers had to be hard to use, like old media and auto mechanics, the industry survives on the fear that you don’t get what’s going on under the hood, that if it’s easy you’re doing it wrong, because otherwise their jobs have little value. Macs were different, and almost every switcher notes that before getting a...
imposter syndrome
molls:
Per the advice of a reader, I have been researching this for the last half hour and telling my mom on the phone “Mom. This is what we have. This is what’s wrong with us.”
The Impostor Syndrome, sometimes called Impostor Phenomenon or Fraud Syndrome, is a syndrome where sufferers are unable to internalize their accomplishments. It is not an officially recognized psychological disorder...
