Though nobody has asked, I feel I owe an explanation on this abandoned project. I had a run-in with my (thankfully mellow) drug of choice: weed. I know many people who can design and program while high. I’m not one of those people, and even if smoking happens outside work hours, it tends to disrupt my focus on sober hours.
It was an eye opener to try to free myself from its grasp, the more I struggled, the tighter it held me. Finally I had to admit I had no power over it. I started reading the 12 steps of AA and then completely changed my context by moving to Madrid. Two sober months after, my month-long high in Barcelona now seems a hazy nightmare in retrospect. I’m much happier and focused now.
I’m a little bit bummed that I have yet another stale project sitting on my hard-drive. I think this one has a lot of potential, but I’ve joined a start-up as a full-time product designer (this will come in a different post), so I won’t have time to complete it.
I love saying these words to myself, because the rebel daemon within whispers “you could probably put an hour here and there, and see how it goes”. Also stacking odds in my favor is the fact that it’s winter in Spain: it’s not as cold and dark as to make me miserable (as Canada does), yet it’s cold enough to discourage me from spending my meager free time outdoors. I’ll give it a chance because it’s worth it.