State of Mind
James Thomson
It seems ironic, that despite our invention of near-instantaneous global communication, we are still not the best species on the planet at actually telling each other how we're feeling. Probably not even in the top five. Instead, many of us actively hide it from those around us. We say what we think we should be feeling, because everybody else around us seems to be perfectly normal, and we don't want to be seen as the crazy one. I've just come back from two very interesting—and quite different—tech conferences over the last month and a half: NSConference in Leicester, UK, and Ull in Kilkenny, Ireland. I spoke at the first one, and barely slept at the second. I enjoyed them both immensely.
And yet...
Surrounded by some of the best and brightest people in the developer community, I had the nagging feeling that I shouldn't really be there with them. I've had the same feeling at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference for years now. As I stood backstage at NSConference, about to give my talk to 300 people, telling them the story of my professional life, I thought to myself, "I'm just not that important. Will people even be interested?" Right at the moment I walk onstage, it will tu [...] To read the rest of this article: 
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