I'm a full-stack developer.
For a long time I was a heavy social media user. Instagram and TikTok filled every gap in my day, and plenty of hours that weren't gaps.
I tried quitting the usual way. I deactivated my accounts, and sometimes deleted them completely. I always came back. Twice, I made it to about day nine before I did.
What works better for me than willpower is treating my day the way I treat code: measure where the time actually goes, find the bottleneck, change one thing, and check whether it made a difference.
Why this blog exists
This blog is where I write those experiments up. It also started as a replacement: somewhere to publish on my own schedule instead of posting into a feed.
I still use two social platforms. The goal was never to quit everything. It is to choose when I open them, instead of opening them by default.
What you'll find here
- Time auditing — finding where your hours actually go, the way you would find a slow part of a program.
- Digital detox — friction design and shutdown routines that survive bad days.
- Frameworks — mental models, mostly borrowed from software, explained in plain words.
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