with a little help from my friends

by Voj

This is a sort of follow up to yesterday’s post. Steve posted a nice comment, assuring me that “In the end, you’re better off developing a relaxed attitude toward the fact that you will *always* feel a bit stupid in this business.”

I completely agree, and on some level I know this—at the same time, the anxious nervousness I get from NOT knowing drives me forward. It’s exciting to have a whole topic in front of me I know almost nothing about. Although this comes with frustration, it’s of a limited kind, because I do have faith in myself to learn this stuff. One thing I want to be sure of is that I don’t go too far down the rabbit hole into things I don’t really need to learn—after all, we do have a programmer. And there are other things I really want to delve deeply into, like data visualization.

Anyway, that’s not really what this post is about. What it is really about is my deep indebtedness to all my friends, techie and not, who provide support and words of encouragement.

First and foremost, of course, is my husband, who is always unwavering in his support for me. Ditto for my parents. Then there’s my real life techie friends, who bring me back to earth when I start to get a little TOO overexcited, and provide encouragement, and sometimes let me bitch over lunch/drinks/boardgames. And then there’s all my friends online—commenters on my blog, friends on Twitter and Friendfeed—that provide encouragement and help right when I need it. I can’t begin to describe how lucky I feel. I don’t know how much of this “I can do it!” attitude I would have if I didn’t have people surrounding that echo the sentiment.

That’s it, really. Just wanted to get that out there. thanks everyone. :)