You're Not Your Codebase
If you write code, it’s really clear that your code does not represent you. The product you made, the work you did – it’s not you. Code has bugs, code has inefficiencies, and code can almost always be better than it is right now. As a developer, you have an intuitive understanding that an evaluation of your work is not an evaluation of you as a person. There’s clear evidence that a body of work lives outside of you....