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A good friend of mine has a 365x100 rectangle on his (high res) display. As a reminder that it is small, yet he has less days in his life than pixels in this rectangle. And every day spent not on a worthwhile project is a great loss. A modern, sobering memento mori, I would say.
Because in their death bed one often says "I wish I worked on more worthwhile projects"?
Seems sensible to make them as worthwhile as possible.
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Because in their death bed one often says "I wish I worked on more worthwhile projects"?
The inverse being: Why don't I just end it all right now? One answer possibly being: Hmmm, better find some stupid project, and occupy myself, before I really consider whether I'd find a convincing answer to that question. Oh cool, they open sourced this childhood video game!
A good friend of mine has a 365x100 rectangle on his (high res) display. As a reminder that it is small, yet he has less days in his life than pixels in this rectangle. And every day spent not on a worthwhile project is a great loss. A modern, sobering memento mori, I would say.
Because in their death bed one often says "I wish I worked on more worthwhile projects"?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The inverse being: Why don't I just end it all right now? One answer possibly being: Hmmm, better find some stupid project, and occupy myself, before I really consider whether I'd find a convincing answer to that question. Oh cool, they open sourced this childhood video game!
There is an enormous range between working on a worthwhile project and end it all right now. The point was that very few people lay on their death bed and wish they spent more time working. Typically they wish for more time with their family, or in the general sense more experiences. Personally, I love the experience of learning something new and hence enjoy a lot of programming. I will not be wishing on my death bed…
A good friend of mine has a 365x100 rectangle on his (high res) display. As a reminder that it is small, yet he has less days in his life than pixels in this rectangle. And every day spent not on a worthwhile project is a great loss. A modern, sobering memento mori, I would say.
-- the majority of your top quality relationships are build in the first third of your life
-- you are very attractive for females between 25-40
-- you can learn certain things very fast as a kid
-- you age exponentially after a certain biologic age et cetera
Would it be great if you could select ranges of blocks and assign a color to each range according to how you felt those days, i.e. green: good, yellow: not that good, red: not good. I did something like this in past, with colors, and contrarily to the expectations it actually cheered me up to see all those green blocks making up a huge chunk of life. Also, it reminded me of http://moriclock.com
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Medical expenses only accelerate if you attempt to fend off death. There is no need for this with assisted suicide laws.
I am living in the country with such laws in place (Switzerland); but most old people I talked to really want to live. Nobody wants to die, unless they are in great pain.
That sounds pretty painful.
A good friend of mine has a 365x100 rectangle on his (high res) display. As a reminder that it is small, yet he has less days in his life than pixels in this rectangle. And every day spent not on a worthwhile project is a great loss. A modern, sobering memento mori, I would say.
> 365x100 rectangle I like that! > And every day spent not on a worthwhile project is a great loss. Does anybody really values days of life based only on the "projects"?
Most people have life goals that filter into professional, personal, family, etc. Some goals might not sound like projects "go on more vacations with the kids," but require a sequence of things to be done in order for them to be feasible.
In "the end," the ones that are most valuable will probably not be the professional things, particularly in the technical space. Most because they'll feel especially inconsequential 10 years out. The professional projects I spent weeks and months on a decade ago are problems largely solved and turnkey in 2016. That said, they're fulfilling, and that's why we enjoy doing them and challenging ourselves.
So unless you're doing some really monumentally important-for-humanity professional projects, their value is probably ephemeral. They should play into a larger set of life goals.