This mf I know had 6+ backlogs in college at any given moment, never wrote a single line of code for 4 years, went off the grid for 1-1.5 years after college, came back on the internet with an announcement saying he's now an SDE at a FAANG org.
Internal monologue power is real.
Absolute megachad Prof. Abdul Bari.
- Never made a single "how to crack 50cr package in 3 months" video.
- Never made a single "day in the life of a FAANG engineer" type nonsensical video.
- Never even thought of making "Dev vs DSA, who earns more? (Updated for 2024)" type of
Varanasi experience -
Drank “thandai” (👀), went to a ghat, asked a random dude if I could get samosa nearby, he looked at my face for 5s, laughed, told me to follow him, took me to a small shop In a small alleyway 500m away, made me eat the best samosa I’ve ever had (and like 4
Just met a guy who's in his early career grind phase and he said to me
"the pain of consistently working hard isn't going to go away, whether I like it or not, so I might as well do my part instead of complaining about every minor inconvenience"
Honestly... sums everything up
One very life-changing observation of mine was noticing that people who are okay with being disliked don't really lose out on anything significant in life, either.
