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Career change to code? Learning to code is not enough. Not even close. Just like learning how to dribble doesn't make you a pro ball player. There are 7 steps. So you need 7 campaigns. My newsletter is your unfair advantage on each. You also get access to my Podcast and other free resources - each of which help you understand exactly how I went from 37yo lawyer to Google Engineer. Sign up so you never miss out.

The Highlight Reel Killed Resilience: Why Your Rejections Are Actually Proof You're Getting Closer

Everyone you see on LinkedIn landed their dream job. They got the offer. They posted the celebration. Their journey looks clean. Linear. Like they knew exactly what they were doing the whole time. You know what they didn't post? The rejections. The failed interviews. The months where nothing happ...

by Zubin Pratap — Oct 27, 2025

AI Engineering Courses: Old Wine, New Bottles (You May Already Have These Skills)

Every few years, the tech world loses its mind over the "next big thing." Ruby on Rails had developers convinced they needed to relearn web development from scratch. Then it was React. Blockchain. Big Data. DevOps. Machine Learning. Now? "AI Engineering." And with each wave comes the same predict...

by Zubin Pratap — Oct 19, 2025

The Five Critical Decisions That Separate Successful Career Changes From Expensive Failures

AI won't take your job. Someone using AI will. That's triggering panic. People are Googling "career change" at 2 am, convinced they need to blow up their lives and start over. Most of them are wrong. Career change is terrible for most people. It takes 12-24 months minimum. You'll spend nights and...

Oct 07, 2025

What Coding Is Like IRL (on the job)

Hey there, Feeling overwhelmed before you’ve even truly started? You’ve likely been told the path to becoming a software engineer involves endless tutorials, coding challenges, and grinding out lines of code. It’s a picture painted in bright, shiny colors, promising a direct route to a new career...

by Zubin Pratap — Oct 04, 2025

The Best Learning To Code Goal-Setting Framework for Time-Poor Professionals (I Used This) [Stage 1/7]

Last week, I got an email that made my stomach drop. "Zubin, I've completed 17 Udemy courses, built more than 100 projects, and I still freeze up when someone asks me to code something from scratch. What's wrong with me?" 100 projects? I literally had 100 times less when I got into Google. Talk ...

by Zubin Pratap — Sep 30, 2025

Why Your Code Skills Aren't Getting You Interviews: The 4 Hidden Stages of Tech Career Change

𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝟯 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽𝘀. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝟳. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗜 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝗻𝗼 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝟰. Folks who come to me for help tend to be "Stuck Intermediates." They've sunk months, maybe years, into learning code. They know the basics. They can build a shopping cart app. But they're still not ...

by Zubin Pratap — Sep 24, 2025

Why smart people get stuck at Code (and how to get unstuck)

Smart people get stuck in the strangest ways. They know exactly what they need to do. But they can't bring themselves to do it. Sound familiar? Watch: Why Smart Coders Get Stuck - Full Conversation The Pattern Behind the Paralysis Taha Hussein (Microsoft, Yahoo, SAP veteran) sha...

by Zubin Pratap — Sep 23, 2025

The Portfolio Project Everyone Ignores (...and so they fail)

The BS "Build portfolio projects to showcase your skills." This sounds logical—employers want to see what you can build, right? Every career change guide, coding bootcamp, and transition story focuses on the same thing: impressive GitHub repositories that prove your technical abilities. Except h...

by Zubin Pratap — Sep 11, 2025

The "Just Keep Coding" Lie That's Keeping You Stuck

"Just keep coding every day, and eventually it will click." This advice sounds perfectly reasonable. After all, practice makes perfect, right? Every coding bootcamp, YouTube guru, and LinkedIn influencer preaches the same gospel: consistency is king, and if you're struggling, you just need to...

by Zubin Pratap — Sep 10, 2025

How To Learn Coding Skills That Actually Get You Hired (Not Just Educated)

Why Most Self-Taught Developers Never Get Interviews The coding education industry profits from keeping you focused on endless technical learning. Reason #1: They assume professional skills transfer automatically (they don't) Reason #2: They focus on learning things instead of building things Rea...

by Zubin Pratap — Sep 04, 2025

How To Position Yourself As A Senior Hire (Not A Junior Developer)

Why Career Changers Position Themselves Wrong Most people think "new to coding = junior level" and apply accordingly. Reason #1: They follow social media “advice” instead of studying how career change has been done for centuries Reason #2: They have not measured how much their professional skills...

Sep 02, 2025

You're Learning to Code All Wrong: Why Hard Work Doesn't Guarantee Success

Have you ever wondered why so many hard-working, focused, and committed people still fail to get their dream job as a professional software engineer? The worst explanation is luck. Because that means you might as well just give up and wait to get lucky. The best answer? They knew what to do. Bec...

by Zubin Pratap — Aug 28, 2025

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