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069: Identity Is An Arrow with Avdi Grimm
Greater Than Code Episode 002: Neutralizing Impostor Syndrome with Avdi Grimm
01:52 – Avdi’s Superpower: The Power of Inspiration, RubyConf India, and International Conferences vs Domestic
04:28 – The Pursuit of a Fixed Life: Achieving or Avoiding Stasis
Blog Post: I was trying to end my life
08:40 – Living in the Future and Having Goals
16:36 – Hitting Career Stasis vs Identity Stasis
25:23 – Becoming a Visible Person in Tech
31:27 – Encouraging and Inspiring People to Find Their Potential and Value
44:23 – Being Authentic and Transparent to the World
Reflections:
Coraline: Identity matters.
Rein: How identity and society interact: Symbolic Interactionism. Also, having therapeutic relationships.
Jessica: Two energies, internally, of being ‘grounded’ and ‘inspired’ and those feeding into ‘connection’, together. Also, we have identity in the now and in the future.
The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
Janelle: Being present and listening, connecting, and internalizing to form new thoughts you wouldn’t have had otherwise.
Avdi: Identity in the now and identity in the future forms an arrow.
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