Ironically, one of the biggest social problems currently reported at work is lack of confidence, also known as Impostor Syndrome. People with confidence try to help people fix their Impostor Syndrome, under the theory that they are in fact as smart as people say they are, and they just need to accept it.

But I think Impostor Syndrome is valuable. The people with Impostor Syndrome are the people who *aren't* sure that a logical proof of their smartness is sufficient. They're looking around them and finding something wrong, an intuitive sense that around here, logic does not always agree with reality, and the obviously right solution does not lead to obviously happy customers, and it's unsettling because maybe smartness isn't enough, and maybe if we don't feel like we know what we're doing, it's because we don't.

Impostor Syndrome is that voice inside you saying that not everything is as it seems, and it could all be lost in a moment. The people with the problem are the people who can't hear that voice.

John Oliver is killing it on Last Week Tonight. Here's his amazing two-part summary of the West's impact on LGBT rights in Uganda and his great interview with Pepe Julian Onziema:

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I'll be taking a little break due to vacation and as well as to avoid burnout. I've almost done 2 years worth of work up to this point, I think I deserve a break.

Thanks Albert. I appreciate that.


And now, for something completely different...

Via " World's most dangerous theme park opens.

You are among friends here so unload all you want or need, we don't judge.

Sometimes life will throw you a curve ball but more often then not I find that we always come out better for it. So while it may seem gloomy at the moment things will get better.

You know, as positive as I'm trying to be about this whole thing, getting laid-off really sucks.

It makes me feel so alone and useless. And I keep looking at the job postings thinking one of two things: a) am I really even qualified for that? and b) none of these things are actually what I want to do. As much as my job was making me depressed and miserable and forcing me to second-guess my career path, at least it was something, and it allowed me the time to think about the jobs I applied for, rather than the present frantic swathe of applications I'm sending out now.

I just moved. My folks just moved. I don't have a safety catch any more.
Being an adult really sucks sometimes.

(apologies for the mopey post, I'll try to avoid future off-loading of my problems, but I figured at least here, it's among friends)

Jesse - I wish you luck. I have ZERO clue whether or not there are tech wizards who can work some sort of magic and rescue your photos. I HOPE there are, because it would be awful if you can't get any of your photos back. There's got to be a way...

Albert - SO MANY people achieved so much awesomeness by the tender age of, well, our age... So what? Live your life, not theirs. You're not Mozart, you're you. Find your own way to be awesome like you think they were...

Also, I DON'T WANT TO UNPACK MY STUPID BOXES... bloody apartment living. I need more bookshelves, and much less stuff. :(

Who seriously holds an election the first day of the world cup? come-on Ontario, seriously.

Secondly, my technologically superior friends, my phone died (apparently the motherboard is pooched/fried/gonzo/kapput/mia/fubar).All I know is it won't charge, and the cell phone repair place said it is the motherboard. Somehow, I neglected to copy my photos from my camera to another device. Is it possible to salvage data from said device at this point? I'm willing to spend some money, as it is my photos from India that I'd really like to have.

Thanks

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WTF!? Blaise Pascal only lived 39 years and he created, wrote, and contributed all his mathematics and physical theories in this short span of time?

Well I feel like an underachiever.