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Ideas on impostor syndrome, confidence, leadership, and doing hard things, from a former NASA propulsion engineer who’s lived it. Grab a coffee and stay a while.

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Does AI make impostor syndrome worse?

Nobody Ever Felt Stupid Because a Calculator Was Faster I read an article claiming AI is making impostor syndrome worse. The logic: if AI wrote it, I must not

Are You Setting Your Team Up for Failure?

Are you doing what you can for your team to insure success? Or are you setting them up for failure?

Please SCREAM at me!

Just over 2 years ago, I was preparing to compete in a speech contest, the finals of the 2009 Toastmasters

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Flattery or Compliment?

Do you like to receive compliments? Do you like to give them? Have you ever received a compliment that sounded

He Spoke to My Fears…

Yesterday, I went to a retirement party for a former co-worker. I spent almost 14 years as an engineer at

Five Ways to Defeat Self-Doubt

Silence the impostor and trust what you know. See how self-doubt works, and five proven ways to beat it.

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