Hrm. People sometimes tell me I'm too hard on myself. And I can see how that might be a problem.
That being said, though, the people I think of as awesome are often not the sort of people who would, say, add on to such a comment thread to proclaim their awesomeness. This can be a result of high standards, of realizing "Hey, that was pretty good, but in the larger scheme of things, it wasn't that awesome." This can be a problem, if people turn into workaholics, but I think it gave, say, Swat, some of its distinctive flavor. (Which admittedly isn't an environment I'd want to be in all the time.)
By this token, I consider myself an awesome computer scientist, and yet realize that I'm not totally awesome. Because neither I nor anyone else (as far as I know) has proved that P != NP, despite it seeming incredibly blinkin' obvious :)
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Date: 2010-05-05 01:02 am (UTC)That being said, though, the people I think of as awesome are often not the sort of people who would, say, add on to such a comment thread to proclaim their awesomeness. This can be a result of high standards, of realizing "Hey, that was pretty good, but in the larger scheme of things, it wasn't that awesome." This can be a problem, if people turn into workaholics, but I think it gave, say, Swat, some of its distinctive flavor. (Which admittedly isn't an environment I'd want to be in all the time.)
By this token, I consider myself an awesome computer scientist, and yet realize that I'm not totally awesome. Because neither I nor anyone else (as far as I know) has proved that P != NP, despite it seeming incredibly blinkin' obvious :)