Tanay Pratap

How we’re taught to measure success:
- School Marks
- College status
- iPhone
- Salary
- Job title

How actually we should measure success:
- Decent salary
- Good mental health
- Physical health
- Free time
- Liking what you do

You are more than your job, college, or marks.

#careers #success #tanaytalks

6 months can change your life.

In 6 months, you can:
- Start your side hustle
- Learn multiple skills
- Adopt a daily routine
- Create a good habit
- Learn a new language
- Tour multiple countries
- Network with numerous people
- Build a product
- Learn marketing
- Break a bad habit

In short, you can restart, rebuild, and rebrand your career and life within 6 months.

Before you come up with excuses, always come back to this post.

#changeyourlife #tanaytalks

If your parents provided you English medium education you should thank them your entire life.

They have opened the doors for you. Now it's in your hand to be a millionaire or watch Netflix.

You can't blame others for your failure anymore.

What people think luxury is:
- House
- Branded clothes
- Travel around the world
- Luxurious Cars
- Loaded bank account
- Expensive watches

What luxury actually is:
- Family
- Time value
- Meaningful relationships
- Freedom to work
- Financial independence
- Good health
- Not optimising life for money

Materialistic things are not luxury. They are unnecessary things dressed up as necessities.

Think about what actually matters at the end of the day.

#materialism #tanaytalks

Namaste 🙏,

I am active on this platform for two things.

1. Share whatever I have learnt in my decade long career. Especially things I wish someone had told me.

2. Tell students struggling that there’s hope for you to land a great job if you work hard.

And I keep doing it without thinking much about the metrics. But today a friend shared screenshot that I have crossed 100K followers on this platform.
And it would be a lie if I say it didn’t make me happy.

Thank you, for caring about what I share and about my mission to help students.

#tanaytalks

The more you learn, the more you succeed.\nAnd happiness & wealth will follow.\n\n#tanaytalks

I was talking to a potential hire today and she asked, “If you solve quality education for all then what will the kids aspire to? Today, they aspire going to Harvard or MIT. Aren’t you taking this feeling away?”

My answer:

The world needs more builders. Less test takers.

Students should aspire to build underwater cities, cure cancer and not to crack X college.

#tanaytalks

Programming jobs are self selective. It’s hard enough to get in, harder to sustain.

Takes hours and hours of not giving up. No cheat codes, no money, nothing can make you a programmer.

#tanaytalks

Every year we want more. While it’s good to ask for more from the universe it’s equally important to do two things:
A. Appreciate what you already have. Be grateful for it. And,
B. Give back to your friends, society, country and this world. Giving gets you more.

Someone who doesn’t have, cannot give. And therefore the universe will keep you full.

My wish for you, this year, is that you practice gratefulness and giving, both mindfully, and see your world transforming.

#tanaytalks #newyear

“6 months back I went for an interview. 10k per month and 2 years bond. And I didn’t get selected even in that.”

My secret to unlimited motivation: these transformations. 👇

Pub Sub pattern explained via meme.

As a Web dev, how much DSA is enough?

For freshers to get into companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon, CP/DSA is still the only route.

But for experienced devs, the scene has changed. Many companies are hiring on FE alone but still have one round of Problem Solving or Data Structures round.

If you’re preparing for such companies as an experienced dev I have put together a post to help. Link is in first comment.

“I will work hard in my 20s and retire by my 30s”


I have been hearing this statement a lot from the students these days.

Most of them want to retire in their 30s.

My question is why?

This type of thinking of over-exhausting themselves in their 20s is toxic.

Instead, focus on financial freedom and better mental health so that you can be happy.

Don’t retire in your 30s, be stress-free.

Make money in your 20s and work on your passion in your 30s.

It will lead to a better life.

What are your thoughts on this?

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#tanaytalks #fixeducation

I can feel the pain in the comment.

This one's from my Youtube channel. I'll be honest with you, I don't blame the colleges or professors anymore for this. It's about economy. Why would you train your staff to learn something if your business is running with underpaid, overworked and outdated staff? Professors are human and expecting them to get updated on their own is inhuman, I feel.

Solution? Collectively people have to come up with an alternative of college. Colleges have become a degree shop and nothing else. Real learning is happening either on YouTube or after joining the job.

I know what I am suggesting is way too revolutionary, but our current education system is outdated. When I talk to students in the chats and forums I can feel their pain:

- 75pc mandated attendance.

- 1st year wasted in chemical, mechanical, electrical and what not.

- so many assignments, tests, exams on..

- outdated syllabus

- and now classes have moved to zoom, with 100% infrastructure fees intact!

Do you have a better alternative? I'm listening.

#education

It's 1:32AM when I'm writing this.
Hackathon is going great.
Coding since 7.30AM yesterday still don't feel tired.

Isn't this the most amazing thing about being a programmer? Once you're in the zone it doesn't feel like work at all!

M super duper excited about my hack! Will share the journey and learnings soon. :)

In Microsoft, especially in Microsoft Teams, summer interns are taken very sincerely. We have proper projects and then presentation in front of all the managers and leaders.
I was mentor to one and he just presented his work and the room erupted with claps. My chest swelled up with pride. I know it's his hardwork and everything but I can't stop being happy for him.

My key takeaway with this two month program is as a mentor if you break down the tasks clearly into smaller chunks and show an absolute clear path to the problem being solved a lot can be done by the college interns. In short, delicate planning of work is essential for successful project completions. The fire in them is immense. It is on us to use it to our advantage!

#internships #summerinternships #mentorship #softwareprojects