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I see this all the time. people harp on about 'fake it until you make it' when I think the bigger unspoken problem is the tendency to overvalue confidence over competence. I would much rather work with someone who values both confidence and competence.

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Agreed, but note that in business you tend to die due to confidence issues well before competence ones.

A mistake due to incompetence can almost always be fixed later, especially if you can look critically at it and learn from it--this is how engineering works.

A lack of confidence, though, means that your skillfully laid-out system never makes it into production because you can't bring yourself to flip the switch.

In business, in a startup, the winner is clear.

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