🧠 Reflection - Day 1 of Plan

#productivity

Today was, in one sense, great.
But let’s see the reality.

I woke up 2 hours late from what I thought I would.
But that's not the problem. I still had 5 hours and I thought I would do the task in 3.5 hours, so I was chill.

Then I got fresh and started watching some shorts.
That led me to eat breakfast just to extend the time of watching shorts — and slowly an hour passed.
Now I had only 4 hours left.

Then came the daily compulsory task: milking the cow 🐄
Now, 3 hours were left.

Then I realized — man this is getting impossible —
but as soon as realization hit, I started.

🌳 Trees & Recursion Breakthrough
I completed basics of tree, some basic operations, and finally understood recursion better.

I learned:

Each call of recursion remains in the call stack until executed completely.
So their execution order is LIFO (Last In First Out), just like a stack.

💻 Daily LeetCode Question
The daily question seemed too tough at first. I’ve been doing only easy or medium.

I picked an easy question instead:

3330. Find the Original Typed String I

It was intelligently designed to trick people into solving it the wrong way at first.
I also did the same.
Then I corrected and submitted an optimal solution.

I read comments — everyone said the same thing.
One comment felt so lovely, I DM’d the person on LinkedIn and asked if he’d be my friend — and he agreed.
That made me really happy.

📉 Downfall of the Day
Then came the bad time of the day:
10:50 PM

Only 3 medium questions were remaining —
I had time, I could’ve completed them.

But instead of being tired, for some reason…
I picked up the phone and started scrolling reels.
2 hours passed like that.

Then I realized — f** man*.
I put the phone in the freezer and went to bathe.

💡 The 1% Plan — Inspired by Atomic Habits
While bathing, I had an idea:

In Atomic Habits, it says:

If you improve 1% every day, you’ll be 37x better in 1 year
and 1300x better in 5 years.

That’s when people find you charismatic —
Especially when you don’t let them see the grind.

🧠 My New System (I’m Batman & The Professor)
No shifts for study.
Only fixed blocks for online consumption.

📱 Online Consumption Plan:
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM → morning block

6:00 PM – 6:30 PM → evening block
(Content is decided the previous day)

Also noticed:
My body looks more jacked lately 💪

I used to do 20 push-ups every 2 hours
Now, I’ll do till failure, 4x a day
Muscles are recovering fast, I’ll continue this.

🎥 Video I Chose to Watch Today
Link: What habits I followed to become a ₹4Cr developer

Duration: 20 minutes

“I can feel the crave for it. The thumbnail was very interesting.”

✨ Key Takeaways from the Video:

Don’t settle or fear what you’ve already learned
Instead: Experiment, break things, learn the depth.
Use terminal instead of GUI
Mac or bash is better than Command Prompt or PowerShell.
I love bash — so I’ll use it more.
Get comfortable with Git
Use Git Bash as much as possible.
Understand CI/CD deeply
Still unclear, but from what I got:
Without CI/CD, cloning the code locally is tedious.
With CI/CD, changes get deployed automatically and are visible to everyone.
Contribute to Open Source
It’s fun and fulfilling.
“Back in my day, most projects were closed. Now we have 1000s of open-source opportunities.”
Read dev stuff daily
I’ll peek into Dev.to regularly for this.