First Principles thinking is probably the most underrated skill in TECH.
once you understand why an algorithm works, you stop memorizing solutions and start deriving them yourself. It helps you develop intuition and remember in the best way possible
unfamiliar problems become less intimidating. patterns start making sense. even hard algorithms feel intuitive.
if DSA has ever felt like memorizing 500 random tricks, thita ai's Algorithms from First Principles playlist might completely change how you approach it.
wish they had made this earlier
playlist link: https://t.co/NjH9FToUyN
Just saw a man on a bicycle being chased by a man running, who was being chased by a bull.
Normal Wednesday in a small town.
Meanwhile, somewhere on the internet, a 26-year-old founder is having an existential crisis because Claude just shipped a feature that might replace his $19/month AI wrapper. Humanity is doing great.
Love being off twitter sometimes
Had a dream last night where someone was explaining my reach problem on X to me.
And I swear, it felt like a conversation with Ramanujan.
This guy was explaining patterns, distribution, visibility and some ridiculously complex underlying mechanism behind why my posts weren’t reaching people.
It all made perfect sense in the dream. Like I’d just been handed the mathematical formula to crack the X algorithm.
I woke up thinking I’d finally unlocked the secrets of organic growth.
Unfortunately, I remember absolutely nothing.
Had a random craving for Maggi at 3 AM one night.
Got up, made myself a bowl with coffee, watched a few reels while eating, and went back to bed at 5.
It’s been a month.
I now have breakfast at 4 PM, lunch at 9 PM, dinner at 3 AM, and see the sunrise more often than my own family.
My circadian rhythm has filed a missing person report.
All because I wanted some Maggi.
One of my friends is a CLAUDE ZOMBIE.
he makes $5k/month from his AI startup but I'm genuinely concerned about him.
he wakes up, opens Claude Code, runs 14 agents in parallel, eats whatever Swiggy recommends, and goes back to prompting.
yesterday I asked him what he's building.
he said "idk let me ask claude"
he has 400 paying customers and absolutely no idea what his code does.
i fear he's going to become a millionaire.