There’s yet another journal article making the rounds in which researchers find that, sure enough, men in the study generally overestimate their abilities, underestimate those of women, and women underestimate their own abilities. Lately, I’ve been reflecting a lot that, in terms of my eventual career prospects… I will never be as attractive a candidate to (many) folks looking to improve their tech as a man who comes in and overpromises the impossible. Because while I’m ambitious, I w...
