It is great to have a mentor and it is awesome to mentor someone.
HN is a community with a lot of talented people, and occasional threads[1] show that there is a demand for mentoring, so maybe we should experiment with having regular threads?
Let's talk about mentoring and match mentors and mentees.
[1] Examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5696873 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693954 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7783517
I have competence in IA, Machine Learning, Python, JS (node, express, meteor), Angular but also Design (mockup, wireframe, bootstrap, css).
I don't see myself as a front-end engineer, nor a back-end engineer, nor data science man.
So, I'm a full-stack engineer but without a deep knowledge in anything. I have a hard time to feel confident enough to work for someone else, as they might realize that I am an impostor (I know about the syndrome, but how can you be sure not be one ?).
I would really like to have a mentor that could show me where I can evaluate myself and where I should make progress.
Thanks !
benderville[at]gmail.com