Posts tagged "Mental Models"
Conceptual tools for better technical reasoning.
When your tools start taking priority over your work, they’re no longer tools — they’re the job.
When your weekend coding ‘hobby’ starts looking suspiciously like a second job, you might be running a shadow startup without realizing it.
Professionalism is overrated. If you want to build faster and learn more, stop overengineering and start thinking like an amateur.
LeetCode made me fast at solving algorithm puzzles. Quitting it made me a better developer. Here's why the grind isn't the path to mastery.
Once you’re writing real code in real systems, you realize: nobody cares if you used a deque. Here’s what actually matters.
The indie hacker world promises freedom, but too often delivers recycled startup dogma. Here's why most of the advice is noise — and what to build instead.
You’re not learning data structures to use them. You’re learning them to think better. Here’s why that shift in mindset matters.
Clean code isn’t always about clarity — and it’s definitely not about more abstractions. Sometimes, it’s just over-engineering with better branding. Here’s why that matters more than you think.
In an era where LLMs make code easy but understanding rare, here’s how to separate your craft from the sea of vibe coders.
Two ways devs actually use chat-based LLMs — and why confusing them is a recipe for disaster.