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The Reality of Roadmaps 🗺️

Ijay on June 30, 2026

Do roadmaps actually help people learn? I am not sure. Because the first time I saw one, it did the exact opposite. I remember opening a DevO...
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Prakirth Govardhanam •

This is very realistic! You greatly emphasized that iterative learning with healthy breaks must be the actual roadmap.
I currently have 2 roadmaps which is basically one following a handbook and the other (roadmap.sh) as a checklist to verify along the way what I learnt :)

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Ijay •

I really like that approach. Using roadmaps as a checklist instead of trying to follow them from top to bottom makes a lot of sense. I think that's probably the best way to use a roadmap.

Thank you for reading. 💖

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Vida Khoshpey •

Wow it was so good even design 😍💪🏻 let me follow you
Interesting

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Ijay •

Thank you for reading. 💖

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Ijay •

I am curious. Has a roadmap ever helped you, or did it make you feel more overwhelmed when you first saw it?

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Ijay •

What is one topic you saw on a roadmap that made you think, "There is no way I am ever going to understand this"?

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Ijay •

Did you follow a roadmap exactly, or did your learning end up taking a different path?

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Ijay •

What is one thing you spent weeks avoiding on a roadmap, only to realize later it was not as scary as you thought?

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Ijay •

Has a roadmap ever genuinely helped you, or did it mostly make you feel like there was more to learn?

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Ijay •

I cannot be the only one who has downloaded multiple roadmaps and still felt confused.

How many roadmaps have you saved over the years?

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Ijay •

One thing I did not include in the newsletter is how much time I spent looking for the "perfect" roadmap instead of just learning. Looking back, that probably slowed me down more than anything else.

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Ijay •

The funny part is that every roadmap looks clean and organized. Real learning rarely feels that way.