how fighting, flaunting, and improvising led me to graph databases
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How fighting, flaunting, and improvising led me to graph databases
@Lauren_Schaefer
Who am I now?
New mom
Part-time software engineer
Inventor
Work from home in DE
The internet is awesome!
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Go Pack!
“Impostor syndrome (also known as impostor phenomenon or fraud syndrome) is a term coined in 1978 by clinical psychologists Dr. Pauline R. Clance and Suzanne A. Imes referring to high-achieving individuals marked by an inability to internalize their accomplishments and a persistent fear of being exposed as a "fraud".[1] Despite external evidence of their competence, those exhibiting the syndrome remain convinced that they are frauds and do not deserve the success they have achieved.”
The all-knowing Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
Fight imposter syndrome!
Who gets the imposter syndrome?
High achievers
Women
African Americans
Know that the confidence gap is real
Men overestimate their abilities while women underestimate
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/05/the-confidence-gap/359815/
If you’ve got it, flaunt it
Embrace what makes you unique and use it to your advantage
Be memorable!
<b>be</b>
http://freestock.ca/flags_maps_g80-world_map__abstract_acrylic_p2970.html, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Improv your career. Say “yes and…”
All of that improvising led me to IBM Graph
Let’s talk about #GraphDatabases
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Kevin Bacon
http://bacon.mybluemix.net
People
People who viewed this item ultimately bought…
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Places
Things
Fraud
$$$
Let’s try a graph database
IBM Graph to the rescue!
Highly available
Scales seamlessly
Managed 24/7
Live demo
<b>because I’m feeling<b>
Let’s recap
Fight imposter syndrome
If you’ve got it, flaunt it
Improv your career – say, “yes and…”
Use a graph database when relationships matter