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#100daystooffload Day2: Some days ago I saw on a news site that a guy had been banned from his Amazon account, including all his Alexa devices. Even tough this is something I know can happen at any time, it shocked me that when I shared the news with some colleagues they said something serious, must had happened. It surprised me, because i think that even if Amazon is in the right it's surprising the amount of power we are voluntarily giving to them. One of them even compared it to when he got banned from nintendo for using a cracked wii.

And that's a serious problem. I can understand getting him banned from amazon for whatever reason, but since their devices can only connect to their servers, they got practically bricked until the ban was lifted about a week later.

It should be required for smart devices to have another way to connect them to another server if you wish. Using standard connections and protocols, knowleadgeable people could change to use the most convenient one for them.

Second Try Day 1:

After a couple years I'm going to try the #100daysToOffload challenge again, I've always had trouble sharing my thoughts an the couple weeks that I had forced me to write, were helpful to organize my tought and I think it's a nice way to improve my writing. I got lucky that write.as and mastodon saved my account after all this inactivity.

I'm hoping that by the end of the challenge I will be able to write easily a couple pages worth of coherent content, instead of the rambling I do all the time.

Entry 9: Today I will freeze all my projects. Just found out the dates To an exam in which I could get my Degree. If everything goes correctly I would be getting it around June 2022.

Last couple months I've been busy with several projects I've been working on, but I realized that to be able to pass the exam I will need to study daily. I'm aiming to study around 4 hours a day at least. This would be besides the activities I NEED to do. It will be a hard year but I hope that I can achieve it.

I will need to study learn and relearn 5 years of college in less than a year. The first Exam would be in December, and the Second part would be around May next year. I can take it as many times as needed but since it's expensive I'm aiming to do it on the first try.

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Entry 8:

After a couple weeks, finally I found some time to write again. I find it funny that last post was about that I should just write. about anything. Just to do it. But it's harder in practice that it seems. Even tough I haven't written in the last couple weeks I've been thinking about what and when to write.

I think that post really made me focus on the things that matter to me, before that I was sleeping about 4 hours a day and 14 hours on Sundays. I've been actively thinking about the things I do and if it's something that I want or need to continue doing.

Frequently I find myself getting burned out. Anxiety starts building up until it reaches a tipping point when I break. It's something I've been working in, so that I can prevent it before it's too late.

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Entry 7:

It just struck me, it's not about publishing the best content. It's all about doing your best and write. If you have a blog it needs to have posts, if its a channel it needs videos, a podcasts needs audios.

Not every time will be an amazing publication, but the thing is that you need to remember to do it daily. If not you better have a good reason not to do it. Just do it, there's no need to wait for the perfect time or the perfect article

I'm starting to feel that #100DaysToOffload is helping me to loosen up and write more freely. I know my grammar and diction may not be the best. But it's something I can improve with practice. Even tough I'm not writing daily, due to the challenge at least I'm thinking daily what to write.

I'm starting to notice that it has the same effect for my real blog. I've hardly written something in the last years, even when I have no readers I always end up throwing away my drafts after several attempts to improve them. But in the last weeks I basically doubled my posts. It may not be the best posts but at least I published them.

I still end up scratching a big part of what I write, but the important thing is that I'm forcing myself to at least finish something that could be published and stop thinking about it.

Right now I'm so tired because I haven't slept well the last two days. Because of that, today I didn't have the mental energy to work, just spent the whole day trying to be present in case I'm needed. One of the wonders of home office. Tomorrow I will need to wake up early and work quickly as fuck to compensate my slacking.

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I'm a dropout. I left college when I had only three more semesters to conclude it. It's something that bothers me from time to time. At the time it didn't matter too much for me.

I had started to get involved in several activities. I started dancing, cooking, playing the piano, studying about everything but not school. For the last almost three years I've been trying to finish college, but I get anxious every time I start to look into it. What if my opportunities to do it have already passed? Do I really need a college degree to do what I want in life? I could have a better job or even the same job but with better pay.

I haven't told my family about it. It's something that every time we meet stresses me. Last year my father almost died, it made me think if I should tell them soon.

#100DaysToOffload Entry 3

#100DaysToOffload Entry 2: After publishing the first entry I realized that for other people to be able to see my blog I either need to pay, or share it on social media. So I created a mastodon account. It took me more time than I would have liked because I was trying to set it up through tor. After several attempts I gave up, it seems that it won't work properly. I think the challenge will be tougher than I thought. I'm hoping to be able to post about three times a week, to be able to complete it.

Today I begin with the challenge #100DaysToOffload. I'm going to do this anonymously so that I have no fear to express my thoughts and feelings.

Day 1: I've been looking to do something like this for a long time, but I always fear that whatever I write will follow me forever.

Since I will be keeping this anonymous I won't be posting this on any social media.