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hello today okay hey I'm Kendrick and
this office title you two can do it
theorem a slow so there's a little bit
about me I'm based in Australia a person
Australia on the software developer if
you want to check out my social social
links it's my give up in my Twitter
before we start I would like to
emphasize that this isn't actual
announcements to make that one this is
not a technical talk this is not gonna
teach you how to build mixes so if you
if you want to do that I think workshop
be 10 be a better place and to my cat
has an Instagram so if you guys fit boy
at mister not nice or the Hosey the beer
pretty good no so this talk is mainly
about impostor syndrome and I think we
we as a tech community
talk about and acknowledge primarily
because it's just so common in the text
entry and you know if we don't
acknowledge it become be the best
community we can be like to share a
little story that I've been through a
little roller coaster night in my life
the past three months and essentially
what happened in July was that I quit my
job in Brisbane Australia and I had a
one-month buffer gap before my next job
I was a bit bored and I decided to
browse the dunes operated and turns out
there was a list of projects that the
Interior Foundation wanted to happen one
of them I would say they were mixed up
which I thought was quite interesting
actually billion intermix that isn't
that easy you actually have to go into
quite in-depth cryptography in software
design patents and currently smart
contract designs at one point I was
copying and pasting a prime few others
into easy and calm and finding contracts
that verify a contract with the same
prime number to extract the seven pieces
of wanting to kind of make my - my
contract work occasionally you can find
it on github by an enticement but not
get up and you find a verified contracts
and even skin so that's a that's how the
I had to die and those
institutions but but but I got it done
anyway I told the mix I got the UIL
I built the MVP and I watched it on
Rosen it was I was quite happy with it
so I mean it's week I actually had like
15 a' so it wasn't expecting much
traffic
but the topic actually retweeted it and
catapulted my my Twitter follower cams
like now actually about influence that
20x
better than IC o---- you know but yeah
actually because of this I got invited
to a workshop at the zero knowledge
proof workshop sponsored by the theorem
foundation and some of the world's best
engineers in cryptography and specifying
zealots prevent in abstract maths
awarding of something the takeaway of
the conference was that the best of the
best engineers who was and even throw
that was speaking English acknowledged
the fact that everyone everyone at the
box office
technical levels and everyone should
share a perspective and the opinions
regardless of the background or the
experience in the field like your
insight is as valuable as anyone's so I
guess if I had to give a conclusion a
couple takeaways is that it's okay to
not know everything and different
perspectives in the Durham community are
welcome and it helps us to kind of be
aspirational of the best community we
can be I apologize that this isn't a
choice you guys wanted but yet it's got
any questions those are my social links
and my cat's Instagram which would be
really nice if you guys could follow it
thanks
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