How coding can liberate us

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Apple Park is a big spaceship. It is circular. It was announced in 2006 by Steve Jobs himself. It can shift 10 ft without collapsing. Provides cushion against natural disasters.

Google started offering sleeping pods to let its employees sleep in their offices. As far back as I remember these pods are there. So are free bikes and spacious cafes to cozy up their people.

Facebook alone has a yearly earnings nearly 4 times as of the yearly budget of Pakistan.

Technology is Freedom.

It asks education, curiosity and a belief in one self. People who get into it — look up to the riches of the world. It truly is a marvellous thing to get a first hand look at what freedom feels like.

What is the right way to get our hands dirty in tech?

Get into tech industry by Learning to Code.

1st Stage : — A touch of Freedom

I feel coding is an art. It lets us think outside the common shackles of our society. It lets you practice our university education. Some days we are drawing a flow chart. Other days we are scrolling designs on Pinterest. And the best days — you are surfing youtube in van offices.

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You are out of the routine crib, gossips and people. Things that used to give you a temporary buzz, some dopamine kick and a spike of happiness followed with dullness — now do not come near you.

Communities change. People you try to sit with, change. Your everyday goto apps change. Email inboxes change. Browser history is changed. Weight on your back packs is now reduced. Life gets lighter to carry all of it on your back. Learning Coding is a gateway. Adventures follow you.

2nd Stage : — Loneliness

Next stage is — you do not find many people who think like you do. Most around start finding it difficult to talk to you. You kind of become a freak or say a nerd. Because, the flowchart in your mind can not possibly fall in anybody’s else’s mind — you start walking this path alone.

This is a scary phase. At times, your worst fears come knocking at your door. Relatives start side lining you. Colleagues start getting alienated from you. Things that were easier once, now become a social fear. It is now difficult to sit in the same gatherings and laugh.

I would say — keep moving heads down and forward. Because all great things follow this silence you are breathing today.

Let people talk on your back. Let some laugh at you. Let them call you scary names. And let go of your fears of other’s validations.

Now stop thinking. And get back into going into your state of Flow — where you are creating a world while letting the time breeze past you.

3rd Stage : — Freedom

Coding is Freedom. Paypal brought Elon Musk out of jeopardy. Apple brought Steve Jobs out of garage. Microsoft gave Bill Gates humility. It has changed people.

Not only people. Nation’s economic standing. Ok — world’s geography is reshaped.

As you are 3 to 4 years into your journey of writing Code — you already have liberated yourself from society’s shackles. Some of our people, have a hidden fear that keeps them from declaring it. But honestly — I have not seen anyone who codes straight 3 years and is stuck in a financial crisis.

You get opportunities in the shape of design jobs, blog writing, research, twitter and meetups.

Before; it used to be excessive dark and a corner office.

Now; it is all things Freedom.

This was impossible 3 years back when I was hooked to long HBO night sessions, late mornings and non stop working to make people happy.

If you want to reach the Freedom, start coding today and in 3 years you will have lived some of the best experiences of your life.

Pick up —

Pick up a Udemy course. Find a quiet spot near your home. Spare an hour or two everyday. Use lead pencil to take notes. Draw your own plans, a road map or a destination.

We are living in an era — where one thing is transforming the shape of this world. Be part of this one thing.

Today, 1 second wasted not creating on internet, is a life-time wasted 100 years back.

Make use of it. It can relieve you of your financial stress. And give you a sense that never was possible in our world’s history.