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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Messages Home Explore 1 Notifications Messages Grok Lists Bookmarks Communities Premium Profile More Post Integer @anonzerosum Post See new posts Conversation Michael Dempsey @mhdempsey The Luxury of Knowing We notice when we don't belong. We often don’t fully notice when we do. This happens everywhere, but especially in tech, where the systems are remarkably good at pulling people in and the groupthink is even better at keeping them there. You can spend years inside the bubble before you realize you never questioned whether you were in the right place. Careers are strange because growing up is infinite. You show up to your first job and someone hires you, pays you, and you spend months toggling between imposter syndrome, overconfidence, and existential doubt about what you do or don't know about work and life. One of the luckiest breaks of my life was figuring out what work I wanted to do ~20 and feeling a d

Michael Dempsey @mhdempsey The Luxury of Knowing We notice when we don't belong. We often don’t fully notice when we do. This happens everywhere, but especially in tech, where the systems are remarkably good at pulling people in and the groupthink is even better at keeping them there. You can spend years inside the bubble before you realize you never questioned whether you were in the right place. Careers are strange because growing up is infinite. You show up to your first job and someone hires you, pays you, and you spend months toggling between imposter syndrome, overconfidence, and existen

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