I'm a phony. Are you?
When I was in high school, just before the Internet became widely available, I was the greatest programmer in the world.<p>These days, with the Internet and constant promotion of projects, I see that I'm just a talentless nobody.<p>We're now regularly exposed to the work of the tiny group of truly excellent programmers, and only the very best output of the masses of regular programmers.  How can anyone who stays even slightly up to date (i.e. programming blogs and social bookmarking sites) feel good about what he/she does when bombarded by success stories of amazing sites/applications/services?