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:

1. #100DaysToOffload: Day 1 – Introduction
2. Practice what you preach
3. Managing projects is about understanding context
4. How I use analogue notebooks
5. A tour of my #realworldhomeoffice
6. Sounds from a #realworldhomeoffice
7. Time for a more sustainable blog theme
8. Sort-of breaking up with Cloudflare
9. The perfect non-technical book on decentralisation?
10. Just write.
11. Rules to live by
12. Liquid society?
13. Perfectionism
14. Moving on
15. HOWTO: Create radically smaller images for your minimalist blog
16. Living a good life is not a theoretical exercise
17. Musonius Rufus on meat
18. Opinions and preferences
19. One year.
20. Things could be worse
21. Lies and misinformation
22. Identity, obedience, and social media
23. Three internets?
24. We’re the real losers of realtime behavioural advertising auctions
25. Herd immunity for privacy
26. Keeping it simple
27. Experimenting with the MAF method
28. Giving consent
29. Moving Mastodon instance
30. Climate ch-ch-ch-changes
31. Strengths and schooling
32. The auto-suggested life is not worth living
33. Remaining unmanaged
34. Kettled by Big Tech?
35. Temporarily embarrassed influencers
36. Letting go of my pre-pandemic self
37. 3 advantages of consent-based decision making
38. Changing desktop environment in Pop!_OS
39. Deleting my Patreon account
40. What’s the purpose of Philosophy?
41. What do we mean by ‘the economy’?
42. An incredible example of societal collapse
43. We’re not even citizens, just independent contractors
44. Rejecting the ideas hamster
45. New habits die easily
46. Working out loud is noisy
47. NVC and FONT
48. Running with the wolves
49. Learning through frustration
50. The state of professional social networking: a personal history
51. Lying in bed with Marcus Aurelius and Mahatma Gandhi, thinking about work
52. How to plan a workshop in 10 steps
53. Marcus Aurelius on character
54. Baltasar Gracián on patience
55. 10 ways to Build Back Better
56. Introspection, truth, and error
57. Our better natures
58. How to build ideological products that delight users
59. The Ice Cream Fork of Productisation
60. What I do when I don’t know what to do
61. Spatial video conferencing with self-organised breakout rooms
62. What’s your favourite month?
63. (A)synchronous project updates within organisations
64. Convenience, UX, and ethics
65. Define your audience or your product will (probably) fail
66. Give and you shall receive
67. The self-cannibalisation of ideas and experience
68. Are you OK?
69. Skin in the game?
70. Who are you without the doing?
71. The cash value of truth
72. No more performative professionalism
73. Current optimization is long-term anachronism
74. 5 things I’ve learned this (work) year
75. My favourite posts of 2020
76. Free Software and two forms of liberty
77. 40 things I’ve learned in 40 years.
78. What day is it? What date?
79. Christmas slobbing about
80. My two biggest insights from last year
81. Everything flows
82. The end of competition
83. Power and paths
84. The (monetary) value of a university education during a pandemic
85. Solving for complexity
86. Investing in decentralised crypto file storage
87. Trust no-one: why ‘proof of work’ is killing the planet as well as us
88. Introducing eink.link, my new side project
89. Refactoring eink.link
90. HOWTO: Install Firefox on Chrome OS
91. Everyone has an eschatology
92. The role of the man who foresees is a sad one
93. Proof-of-What?
94. New side project: extinction.fyi
95. Refactoring extinction.fyi
96. Inputs and outputs
97. How to subscribe to extinction.fyi
98. Another new side project: privacy.garden
99. Iterating privacy.garden
100. 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!

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This post is Day 101 of my #100DaysToOffload challenge. Want to get involved? Find out more at 100daystooffload.com. Image by Sharon McCutcheon.