Agree - everyone is pushing something. I’d love to compete on merit - the quality of the products I build. But I lose out to terminally-online people who can barely code but boy do they know how to stand out & “hustle”.

I know life isn’t fair, but this is just so Exhausting.

I feel like this is something we all go through. Some are more natural / comfrotable at promotion. I am like you though. And while I do ship and try to promote, I still am very embarrassed by it. Good post.