Bharat's recommendation

I think the older one gets the more aware of one's abilities, strengths and shortcomings. I also think there's a higher level of acceptance of each of these.

In applying for a UPA position, I needed two references. I asked Bharat and Mark. Bharat's seems pretty right on in my opinion:

Bharat Mediratta: ok, here's what I've written
Bharat Mediratta: To whom it may concern, 
Bharat Mediratta: I've known Kitt socially since about 1995 
  and have collaborated with her on ultimate and technology 
  related projects since about 1998.  I worked with her in a 
  profesional capacity from around June of 2000 to around June 
  of 2004.  During this time, I found her to be smart, talented 
  and generally a pleasure to work with.
Bharat Mediratta: Kitt's strengths are intelligence and 
  creativity.  She is quick to learn new technologies and has 
  no shortage of good ideas.  She is a very capable and 
  prolific software engineer when she is working on projects
  that interest her.  I've typically found her to be highly 
  motivated when working on web based software projects and 
  ultimate frisbee related activities.  Doing software 
  engineering at the UPA seems like it would be a good 
  conjunction of the two.  She has strong math and analytical 
  abilities and a solid grounding in the fundamentals of web 
  based software development.
Bharat Mediratta: Kitt's weakness is that she is put off by 
  complexity unless it's associated with something that she is 
  very motivated to solve.  The only times when she has failed 
  during our professional career together have been times when 
  she was required to work on difficult and uninteresting 
  problems.  During the times when she was engaged on 
  interesting problems she consistently worked diligently to 
  complete her tasks as quickly as possible.
Bharat Mediratta: -----
Bharat Mediratta: it's an unfinished masterpiece.  pretty fair, 
  though I think.
Kitt Hodsden: Got me pegged.