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You often mention grinding leetcode or mathacademy. Do you find it is helping you in your job/job search? My opinion of those bite-sized code/math problem websites has drifted towards "it's just tutorial hell and fucking around to feel like you're getting better at the real thing, just solve real problems", but maybe that's just laziness speaking.
I have a two-pronged approach where I want to get better at harder tech which is math followed by then machine learning and softer tech which would be backend and frontend. I try to devote more time to my soft stuff. It's just that the things I do on mathacademy are easier to track and quantify with built-in dashboards whereas I have to keep manual track of my web dev stuff. I want to be employable asap, I try to get 4 hours off programming besides my math work in daily.
I would guess in the long term it should help, I eventually want to work on machine learning, in case it becomes a deterrent, I would change course and reduce my workload, for now I should be able to do the pre-requisite math for Machine Learning stuff by march end and I should be through with a lot of my boot.dev and the current front end book plus another that is javascript-based.
I do enjoy it which is something I would have never said about doing math or puzzles, it is quite different from leetcode, worth checking out.
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