I really like this idea, and have thought about doing something similar - glad somebody did it!
However, why on earth do I have to sign in?
Show HN: Life calendar – use the concept of Memento mori to embrace every week
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#12This is really good!
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#13Being asked to sign in after spending time to customise anything, should be illegal.
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#14If you're going to use terms like Memento Mori, please at least spell them correctly and consistently.
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#15Great idea, but why the need to sign in!?
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#16The Kurzgezagt shop also has some nice "Calendar of your life" posters[0] based on the
"What Are You Doing With Your Life? The Tail End" animation they did last year, which is again based on the Wait But Why article "Your Life in Weeks"[2].
[0] https://shop-eu.kurzgesagt.org/collections/existential-dread...
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#17I read a quote today that I think is relevant:
> “Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.”
- William Martin
The idea that one needs to do something memorable every week sounds like a recipe for disaster, burnout at a young age or depression. So no thank you, I'll take my ordinary life which is full of ups and downs.
Sidenote: The fact that a sign up is needed to download a PDF makes me think that you're using this as a way to farm for user data and makes me distrust your intention.
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#18> What have you done in the last week that you will remember on your death bed?
I will probably be murdered in my sleep by the person in charge of maintaining the code I'm writing right now. So, that.
But more to the point: I write code, I like writing code, and I have embraced the fact that writing code makes me happy. At the risk of sounding like the comic book guy in the Simpsons movie, I will probably look back and say "I regret nothing". I never regretted the weekend nights I spent exploring the Web with my 56k modem, and I don't think I'll start now.
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#19Being asked to sign in after spending time to customise anything , should be illegal.
Only if you lose such customizations; otherwise I actually think it's a Good Thing that I get to play without handing out an email address (or worse).
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#20Love the concept, not so much the execution.
The "Login after customizing everything" and "Pay to remove the watermark which renders the calendar useless" are borderline dark patterns.
But on the positive, it gave me an idea to make my own version of this calendar, sans the money grab.