100 days of #100DaysToOffload

It took me 307 days to complete the #100DaysToOffload challenge, mainly because I didn’t include my weeknotes and (until recently) I also published posts at Thought Shrapnel. I wrote about all kinds of things, from privacy to project management, and from Stoicism to new side projects.
During the time period covered by this challenge, I’ve quit a job, dealt with internal strife in our co-op, turned 40, moved Mastodon instance and Linux distribution, spent some time learning about how to be antiracist and about non-violent communication, worked a lot with charities on digital projects and transformation, and come out of and gone back into, lockdown. It’s been pretty intense, when I think about it! Thankfully I managed to stay in pretty good mental shape due to having started CBT pre-pandemic.
Here is a full list of the posts I wrote during that time period:
- #100DaysToOffload: Day 1 – Introduction
- Practice what you preach
- Managing projects is about understanding context
- How I use analogue notebooks
- A tour of my #realworldhomeoffice
- Sounds from a #realworldhomeoffice
- Time for a more sustainable blog theme
- Sort-of breaking up with Cloudflare
- The perfect non-technical book on decentralisation?
- Just write.
- Rules to live by
- Liquid society?
- Perfectionism
- Moving on
- HOWTO: Create radically smaller images for your minimalist blog
- Living a good life is not a theoretical exercise
- Musonius Rufus on meat
- Opinions and preferences
- One year.
- Things could be worse
- Lies and misinformation
- Identity, obedience, and social media
- Three internets?
- We’re the real losers of realtime behavioural advertising auctions
- Herd immunity for privacy
- Keeping it simple
- Experimenting with the MAF method
- Giving consent
- Moving Mastodon instance
- Climate ch-ch-ch-changes
- Strengths and schooling
- The auto-suggested life is not worth living
- Remaining unmanaged
- Kettled by Big Tech?
- Temporarily embarrassed influencers
- Letting go of my pre-pandemic self
- 3 advantages of consent-based decision making
- Changing desktop environment in Pop!_OS
- Deleting my Patreon account
- What’s the purpose of Philosophy?
- What do we mean by ‘the economy’?
- An incredible example of societal collapse
- We’re not even citizens, just independent contractors
- Rejecting the ideas hamster
- New habits die easily
- Working out loud is noisy
- NVC and FONT
- Running with the wolves
- Learning through frustration
- The state of professional social networking: a personal history
- Lying in bed with Marcus Aurelius and Mahatma Gandhi, thinking about work
- How to plan a workshop in 10 steps
- Marcus Aurelius on character
- Baltasar Gracián on patience
- 10 ways to Build Back Better
- Introspection, truth, and error
- Our better natures
- How to build ideological products that delight users
- The Ice Cream Fork of Productisation
- What I do when I don’t know what to do
- Spatial video conferencing with self-organised breakout rooms
- What’s your favourite month?
- (A)synchronous project updates within organisations
- Convenience, UX, and ethics
- Define your audience or your product will (probably) fail
- Give and you shall receive
- The self-cannibalisation of ideas and experience
- Are you OK?
- Skin in the game?
- Who are you without the doing?
- The cash value of truth
- No more performative professionalism
- Current optimization is long-term anachronism
- 5 things I’ve learned this (work) year
- My favourite posts of 2020
- Free Software and two forms of liberty
- 40 things I’ve learned in 40 years.
- What day is it? What date?
- Christmas slobbing about
- My two biggest insights from last year
- Everything flows
- The end of competition
- Power and paths
- The (monetary) value of a university education during a pandemic
- Solving for complexity
- Investing in decentralised crypto file storage
- Trust no-one: why ‘proof of work’ is killing the planet as well as us
- Introducing eink.link, my new side project
- Refactoring eink.link
- HOWTO: Install Firefox on Chrome OS
- Everyone has an eschatology
- The role of the man who foresees is a sad one
- Proof-of-What?
- New side project: extinction.fyi
- Refactoring extinction.fyi
- Inputs and outputs
- How to subscribe to extinction.fyi
- Another new side project: privacy.garden
- Iterating privacy.garden
- Unsettling
Oddly enough, I made two mistakes in numbering — one towards the beginning of the challenge (skipping a number) and once towards the end (repeating a number). Happily, these cancel each other out. I’m not going through the ones inbetween to rectify the numbering as, in the big scheme of things, it doesn’t really matter. There’s 100 posts there, no matter which way you look at it!
This post is Day 101 of my #100DaysToOffload challenge. Want to get involved? Find out more at 100daystooffload.com. Image by Sharon McCutcheon.