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Rawness, there is a certain peculiar beauty in it.
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Today marks the beginning of my journey towards a destination of understanding the world of systems and computers. This journey that should have begun seriously a year ago when I joined my CS degree was pushed off. Put off , procrastinated upon and kept under the rug by a thousand different valid reasons like self doubt on if this is my path or "no time due to academics and assignments", addictions including social media and YouTube sucking up all my free time. All that could be summed up to a single phrase "numbed frustrated life of an average gen Z" and I think most of you get what I mean by that. You wake up to notifications from your phone , you don't know what to do on a given day or you don't want to do it, so you "allow" yourself to be pulled into the void of media. As the days passes, the voice inside you grows louder and the pain grows deeper and we find more and more amusing ways to numb the pain.
What I'm aiming at, that is depth so deep that the world around you shifts, the excellence and understanding of a great craftsman, the graceful and powerful yielding of the sword by an experienced warrior, this cannot be achieved with this lifestyle that the modern world lays-out.
The deep unfulfillment between the laughs, lights and songs. The desperation to reach for something when we are alone with our thoughts.
Ok! Enough about how the modern life sucks, lets talk about what we are planning to do.
6 months dedicated to mastering CSE.
That is the goal.Working in extremes these six months to get fundamental understanding and more.
The learning is going to be Project Based. The idea is to build 5 core projects covering all important areas to a deep level.The goal by the end of this to have first principle understanding , to be able to break down mostly any large scale system and rebuilt it myself from scratch, have a good understanding of networking and such accessory aspects and code almost anything up myself from a compiler to blockchain.
The projects will be clearly defined and have strict deadlines to adhere to. The deadlines work as guardrails for focus and work.
The project updates and weekly reviews will be shared on X and here(bi-weekly or weekly).
CSE is a vast field so the aim of these projects is to cover a large problem space with sufficient depth and build foundational understanding and also to reclaim the mastery of coding without an agent(AI).
With that I end this post. This marks as a beginning to a lot more fun and cool stuff yet to come.
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All journeys begin with the first step! Best of luck! 💪🏼