How being a Software Engineer made me a better person

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Mayuko Inoue is a content creator and Software Engineer. After working in Silicon Valley tech companies like Intuit, Patreon, and Netflix for six years as an iOS Engineer, she became a full-time creator in 2020. Her work aims to help people find their way through the tech industry by sharing her own experiences navigating this world through technology, career advice, and lifestyle videos. She is passionate about discussions around mental health, cultural identity, and creating technology with empathy and compassion.

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[PoojaDutt]

Love this. Anxiety in software engineering is never something that really gets addressed, and dealing with ambiguity is a skill that takes quite some time to learn! Great insight 😀

[rhkilis]

When you think about it, it's strange that something as structured as software engineering can simultaneously be ambiguous. We humans naturally desire structure, and ambiguity can definitely be anxiety-inducing. But I think you make a good point - software engineering teaches us skills on how to make sense of that ambiguity.

[chloeshih]

But mayuko is already the best hooman ever 🥰🥰

[aznfangrl]

Unrelated, but your hair looks amazing here 😍

[TiffInTech]

Loved this video! Appreciate the thoughts around ambiguity, great insights! 🥰

[DrTempesta]

Agile actually has helped me outside of work...

[rawrXD]

Love the video!

I think a key part of reducing ambiguity and anxiety in my opinion is finding the balance in your decision making. Its nearly impossible to entirely remove ambiguity and just not practical to learn all there is to know about everything. Therefore it is up to you to find the right balance of what level of ambiguity you are comfortable with before you start putting together and plan and actioning on todos.

Even when you clear up ambiguity it can sometimes make decisions harder as you learn more about the risks of certain plans. Therefore it is again up to you to find the right amount of risk that you are willing to accept.

[dyna]

Thank you Mayuko for all of the videos you have made for us! I enjoy watching your videos it helps me a lot.

[joshclark]

Something clicked while I was watching this video. I realized I don't care so much about following a career path already set forth for whatever industry I'm working in at a given time. I've currently been working in sales for the past couple of years and have felt this sense of stagnation and boredom. I think getting into a career path like SWE would be perfect for me because like you described, there's a lot of ambiguity involved and I think thats what I need. I also want to start creating content on YouTube and working as a developer would be a perfect career while I pursue other things on the side. Thank you, Mayuko for perfectly saying what I could not put into words lol

[Gmkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk]

Love the video quality and information.

[Stratopeter]

Part of me wanted to escape the mountain of ambiguity that I had to face in graphic design day by day through moving into the direction of software engineering. But then I realized that there is a lot of design problems in SE as well and all the ambiguity comes right back again. It is part of any kind of meaningful and creative work and a huge part of life itself; trying to avoid it is only making our life miserable and fearful, so we might as well embrace it.

[Kenbomp]

Education and money that's comes with it helps quite a bit too. Not perfect but opens doors.

[blinkerflame]

Your videos are so refreshing i love them

[leonardsmith]

I like video I have anxiety sometimes with my work to buy I learned to get through it like you I talked to someone and work through it a move on this was a good message for you audience.

[ahmedmaa]

It can also make you feel like a mercenary.. The worst kind, especially knowing what most corporates that pay decent salaries do to and with people!!

[TimberSha]

The background light is every changing...

[funsky]

What is that external monitor? Am in the market for this

[Edvard-Aliev]

Красивая девочка, не знаю о чем она но это не особо важно, просто эстетическое удовольствие от просмотра

[umarfarooq-itzi]

I am so IMpressed from your physieeee .. would you please telll me your AGE;

[stevensong]

Would you say we learned to embrace change as a software engineer because the job requires you to learn different languages every other year? Speaking of anxiety why not do a video on maintaining mental health during bootcamp? That hit me a lot.