Mission

Mission: LeetCode interview prep

Why

Build Gio back up from rusty fundamentals to confident hard-problem solving without pretending the jump can happen in one step.

The point is not to speedrun random questions. The point is to build pattern recognition, clean habits, and enough repetition that hard questions stop feeling alien.

Success looks like

• Solve a few problems every week without burning out.
• Get fluent with the major interview patterns in roughly NeetCode order.
• Use a consistent CTCI-style solving loop: understand, example, brute force, optimize, code, test.
• Reach the point where hard problems are difficult but approachable instead of chaotic.

Constraints

• Start slower than ambition wants.
• Prefer pattern clusters over random problem picking.
• Keep lessons compact enough to read on a phone and use before doing problems.
• Focus first on building a base of easy and medium problems that transfer well.

Out of scope

• Grinding hard problems too early just for ego.
• Memorizing solutions without being able to explain the tradeoff.
• Treating one lucky accepted submission as true mastery.