If ever there was a group that could benefit from this advice, it is the famously spectrum-associated programmers.

> Faking it long enough is making it. The repetition of behavior, not the sincerity of belief, is what shapes character. You become the kind of person who does the things you repeatedly do.

OK, sure. And if you are faking it, the behavior you are repeating is to fraudulently misrepresent your work to other people, creating undisclosed risks for those who rely on it. The kind of person you become is a liar and a scammer. If you make it in the end, the price for your success is paid by those you deceived on the way.

What do you think about the possibility that you are merely existing to be symbolic?

I found myself asking: what is he trying to achieve with this post.

It all just seems a bit muddled once you consider his actions.

Just seems like self justification.

Or some direction for his employees - don’t think, do.

Oh right, this is the Facebook CTO. That’s entirely consistent with their behaviour.

This is the shallowest kind of pseudo-intellectualism, why is this even on HN?

Somehow this link got deboosted.

As we know from Yoneda Lemma