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Today I broke one of my latest streaks. Today I didn’t contribute to any open source projects and I broke a 35 days straight streak.

I believe that high achieving individuals have suffered this syndrome at least once in their life.

I first heard of this concept in the last Rubyconf Argentina. It was one of the most interesting talks for programmers that had nothing to do with code.

People who suffer this are high-achieving individuals marked by an inability to internalize their accomplishments and a persistent fear of being exposed as a fraud.

I’ll admit it. I’m pretty bad at product management. I’m a programmer, but I’m also a product manager at OmbuShop. I’ve been taught and I’ve learned that for something to reach production it needs to be perfect.

And by perfect I mean that it needs to work as expected. And it should also consume the least amount of resources to achieve its goal. And the build needs to pass. And there should be more test coverage.