.. title: self.overEstimate
.. slug: selfoverestimate
.. date: 2017-10-16 13:58:45 UTC-07:00
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This seems like a typical my-thing. I've fallen into this trap many times. It looks people in my profession fall prey to this too.


    That’s one reason I don’t miss IT, because programmers are very unlikable people… In aviation, for example, people who greatly overestimate their level of skill are all dead.

    - Philip Greenspun, co-founder of ArsDigita, excerpted from Founders at Work.