Performance Anxiety

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Research, essays, and talks by Becca Bailey—a software engineer, writer, and researcher using data to make sense of what | About I'm a software engineer, writer, and researcher. I write to help people in tech feel seen. I've spent my career moving between disciplines that don't always look related on paper. I started as a music teacher. I became a software engineer, then an engineering manager and technical leader. I've built developer tools, design systems, accessible interfaces, and data visualization products; led engineers and technical initiatives; and spoken at software conferences. The common thread has always been people. I'm interested in why systems produce the outcomes they do—and what happens when they don't work for the people inside them. In software, that has meant thinking beyond whether somethin

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