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2016 was a great year. I left my hometown and adapted to a new life in Mexico City, bonded with some great friends and started a couple side projects that died quickly (hackattack.club) tho.

I won a couple hackathons and Startup Weekends here and there (along a couple great friends) but ultimately did not release more projects as I was doing during the first quarter of 2016. When I actually I released 4 MVPs a week.

Winning.

Moving was exhausting as well as adjusting to a new lifestyle but it’s been almost 9 months and I am more than ready to release great products to the world. I have working a little on a couple projects but I found it very complex to make time for side projects.

One of the main problems I found was that I came home exhausted and wanted to unwind a bit. Normally that ended up in me wasting the whole afternoon and not getting anything done at all.

Going a bit deeper into my procrastination nights I also noticed how much I loved not taking out my laptop at all and just keep doing whatever on my smartphone. After further examination, on my phone I was not able to do anything productive other than email, as a developer that is not much.

So, let’s get rid of the phone? But it is such a nice camera and sometimes you need to access data on the go. Then I decided. Let’s just uninstall the social media apps and log out on the web. I kept the chats but uninstalled all kinds of feeds of endless procrastination.

That was it. Uninstalled the social media in which I wasted my time and log out of them in the laptop.

My phone now a K-pop machine

Now my phone is almost only used for podcasts, camera and chats. Every time I feel the urgency of wasting my time I am forced to open up my laptop and got nothing else to do than work on my projects. It feels so amazing to work at making something other than endlessly consume facebook, twitter, snapchat, instagram, netflix, et al.

I know social media has its value for some persons and I can see why is that. In fact I’m working of growing a small brand through social media.

I don’t think my strategy is nowhere near perfect but I hope I can make the most out of it and work so much more during 2017. Will gladly report about no-social media later this year. A small step for man a giant leap for not wasting my time.

Have a great year! And hopefully we’ll be in touch through Medium since I got nowhere else to post the shit in my head.