This year, I attempted doing the 100 Days To Offload challenge. My first thoughts around that are written here. As of this writing, I wrote 34 posts across my blog (8) and journal (26). 34 is obviously much less than 100 but I am pretty happy with the outcome. Without taking this challenge on, I would not have written much at all.
To compare, here are my annual number of posts (⚫ is blog ⭘ is journal post):
- 2014: ⚫⚫⚫⚫ = 4
- 2015: ⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫ = 9
- 2016: ⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫ = 5
- 2017: ⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫ = 8
- 2018: ⚫⚫⚫⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘ = 24
- 2019: ⚫⚫⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘ = 19
- 2020: ⚫⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘ = 18
- 2021: ⚫⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘ = 7
- 2022: ⚫⚫⭘⭘⭘ = 5
- 2023: ⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘ = 17
- 2024: ⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘⭘ = 34
I think count based challenges like #100daystooffload are prone to cheating but
when used primarily as personal productivity tools they can really help. In any
case, I don't think I will be taking this challenge the next year. Pushing from
34 to 100 won't provide me much value since I want to take time and write denser
content. In case I do feel like taking a goal, maybe something like 50 could
work out better.