How are we doing at "being technical"? @grimalkina - looks at how technical teams work, finds it fascinating!

Questions for engineers:
- what does your work help people do?
- how many people a day does your people help?

We are navigating a shifting environment. Threat happens as psychological beings in the world. Identity threat! Are you going to be categorized, is your work going to lose meaning, are you going to be evaluated in a way you don't agree with?

Contextual sense making, asking what it means to be a software engineer. AI skill threat is an example.
@grimalkina

Look at whether teams are in contest culture or thriving culture. Twice as likely to have AI skill threat in a contest culture. @grimalkina

Even people without imposter syndrome will have higher skill threat in a contest culture.

A very persistent belief, @grimalkina "I think it's very boring and super wrong".

Also have this belief about math. Individual explanations are cognitively inexpensive. American culture is individualistic and it impacts the industry.