Pratik Dev Das

you just need enough courage to wade through the marsh of life

The Modern World Teacher Will be the teacher who goes deep into specific knowledge and cracks all the confusion around. The one who knows how to allay all the cranks and ecstasy around. This feeling gives me immense motivation to learn 😎

Those days when nobody looks at you and you just try to be better by 1%. It's tough since there is no validation but remember what you're seeking is much more than validation.

🎥 New video where I design a dashboard using Claude Code and Wispr Flow. Once again, packed with tons of design tips 🔥

A man must build 3 most important pillars of his life; 1. A body that can handle pressure. 2. A mind that doesn’t panic. 3. A skill that creates income. Fail in one, and everything suffers.

Men, be brutaly honest. is this enough?

One of my favorite products, @posthog, is now doing a lot (Error monitoring, Logs, LLM evaluation, Marketing Analytics, Customer Support, Home Delivery) And you can feel it's affecting the overall product. Now you get trivial bugs - session reply shows blank screen for modals, but if you share the link publicly, there's no issue 🫠 I thought there was an issue with our product, but after debugging, it's an issue with their session reply. - Clicking on the chart doesn't show people; it just doesn't do anything. I had to investigate something, but now I can't I found two trivial bugs in 5 minutes of using the product

Normalize realizing the whole cheat code to life is just confidence.

The skill/money matrix or luck whatever seems like is going against me for a while.

In a battle of goals vs system, the system will take you further. If you're a coder your system is how often you read code and jump into troubleshooting/debugging. Or practicing writing cide.

The honor of dying in a system supersedes achieving a goal.

One step at a time. One habit at a time. Nothing goes wasted everything gets compounded or accumulated. May it be good or bad.

The only 4 jobs that will remain at tech companies. Credits: @yrechtman

Is the answer to every problem reading? Is the answer to every confusion research? Is the answer to every doubt studying?

I like to believe I'm incredibly lucky and it was 90% luck and 10% hard work but my schedule was similar 11AM - 7PM - Work 7PM - 8-10PM - Nap, Dinner 10PM - 4-5AM - Learn stuff, work on side projects. One of them was SlidesAI that took off and I eventually went full time. Things that helped tremendously - having parents that support you even when they don't understand what you do (although I used to get taunts in the early days for working in the private sector "it doesn't have security", patwari k form bhar etc lol) - elder brother that took care of the house chores so I didn't have to - having the conviction that if I just put in the work I'll figure it out and since I was intrinsically motivated, it never felt like work - not relying on other people for starting a business or waiting for a co-founder All my friends were interested in civil services doing masters so I couldn't find friends with similar interests in entrepreneurship. So I said fk it. All I have is time I'll learn things myself. Engineering, UI/UX, marketing, product thinking etc. I'm by no means great at any of those, just decent enough to get things done. Now there are challenges of growing the business, managing team, etc but I'd rather work on my own things than working for someone else

Finally when you feel things going out of hand or the frustration taking over: reset. And try the four. Something, almost time slowing down and thinking is the fastest thing. You get paid for solving problems. And to solve it faster, think and observe slower.

Fourth: Remember the little kid who was curious about each simplest thing that existed? Summon him to your rescue. Rather than "fix this" switch to why, how and even "Help me think".

Yet another horrible thing that could happen is "AI-assisted cargo cult debugging under cognitive overload causing tunnel vision". A term coined by AI itself. The hazard is ultimately a domino effect that could lead down to the very depth of depression. contd.