8hrs/day is stupid

I warn you, you might get offended by this email, so if you are someone who isn’t open to learning new ideas and get feedback, close this email right now.

But hey, if you are someone who wants to apply new knowledge for your own betterment, this is the one for you.

Before going ahead, this is a short and sweet summary of what you need to do as a coder:

Don’t click this link

You might have heard of the cliche advice of “If you want to learn to code, you gotta grind for 4+hrs a day or else you gonna face recession”

These people are still facing recession even after working for 4+hrs a day, lmao.

That is straight up useless advice.

Who the heck gets 4 hours of work done on a daily basis? That too quality work?

NOBODY.

Trust me, the ones selling you this, are the ones who don’t even get 2 hrs of work done in a day.

But want to make it seem like they are some messiahs who are insanely productive and code even while cooking.

They’re not.

I didn’t have 4hrs daily, do you think managing college, fitness, powerlifting, online writing, freelancing, and I would still get 4 hours a day to code?

Of course not.

But guess what, I still managed to land a software developer job.

Again, if you’re the ‘hustler’ who believes that working for 38 hours a day is something that you should do regularly, close this email;

Because now, I am gonna show you how you can code for less than 2 hrs a day and still manage to outwork these productivity messiahs.

Let’s get into it.

1. Quality always beats quantity:

I’ve been preaching this since forever, the quality of your work will always outlast the quantity of your work.

Doesn’t matter how much time you spend, if you could get the job done in 2 hrs, and you spent 5 at it, you failed.

Note this, it isn’t a one time process, your quality of work will eventually improve, maybe something you could get done in 3hrs, will only take 1 after some time.

Your job is to get better.

2. Consistency over intensity:

Code daily, even if its just 30-60 mins, do it, momentum matters a lot, more than you think it does.

I started with just 1 hour of focused work a day, built momentum, and once you do, the compound effect starts to kick in.

Time flies, some consistent effort daily, and suddenly one day, you’ll see how far you’ve come.

3. The resource dilemma:

NO, you don’t need 3 tutorials, 5 documentation websites, 7 mini projects to work on, and 3 different roadmaps that you have to keep up with.

Damn.

Choose 1 roadmap, 1 course, 1 small scale project, 1 routine, 1 tutor, 1 reference website, and you are set.

Reply to this email with the thing you’re trying to learn, I’ll make sure to send over some resources (good ones).

As an ending note, I’d say, consistency and showing up daily is what will help you learn more at the end of the day.

No fancy roadmaps.
No fancy systems.
No fancy frameworks.

View them as a simple assisting tool that help you learn faster.

But the fundamentals stay the same, staying consistent and showing up every day.

I’ll see you next time, till then, keep coding daily, learn new stuff, and don’t every give up.

-Atharva