Crazy to think how many people will get up tomorrow morning and hate the outlook of their day. To me that is insane and something that future generations will look back on in awe.
They will look back and be jealous.
Your Life
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#82Would 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
That did not cheer me up at all. Life's too short when you turn it into an empty rectangle.
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#83A 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"?
No. It can be assumed that people here enjoy working on projects. Projects that interest them. The deeper meaning of this statement, in my opinion, is that every day you spend doing something that you dont like is a very big deal because, as this graph illustrates, there aren't really that many days available to waste.
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#84There was this piece at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo http://i.imgur.com/6uVRUff.jpg It shows 100 years of days with someone's life highlighted. Kind of sobering. I want to be believe like fizixer but it's hard to notice any medical changes. I'm 50, what's changed since I was born? I'm no a doctor so I have no idea. Sure I know we've got CRISPR and we've mapped the genome but where are the actual changes? Frie…
Well, over here we're shooting at people's heads with a particle accelerator beam to kill brain tumors. Works pretty well if the conditions are met. Next up: Moving targets you can't bolt to the table because the person will die from not breathing. (So the beam has to be moved.)
Biology is hard though.
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#85This is really profound. I made a rough estimate of when I will die and ticked the box that corresponds to it. Being able to see each individual week that I have left really gave me pause. Wow. And this graph is generous. Your perception of how long a week is decreases with time. So if this were a graph of how much perceived time you have left it would be even smaller...
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#86A 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.
And "entertaining myself" is not a worthwhile project? In a nihilistic way, it's hard to argue that anything's more important.
"Go now, and die in what way seems best to you." - Denethor
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#87On my death bed, my only regret will be that I didn't work smarter, harder and longer. That's why I work so hard now; to minimize the amount of regret.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
An e-mail I received right before reading this post: "THANK YOU for your excellent customer service. Your videos on YouTube -- while I little over my head -- tell how you have a passion for electronics and creating solutions. I have told several people about you and I hope it brings you business. Thank you for sharing your talents with the world." It is so hard to imagine that reflecting on this e-mail might bring me…
I never understood the big deal about death bed. I don't care much about what I think when my i am old and senile.
There's no guarantee that you'll be old or senile when you're ok your deathbed. If you are, great. If not, the regrets will sting a lot more.
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#89This is a somewhat alarming site to view without javascript.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because in their death bed one often says "I wish I worked on more worthwhile projects"?
An e-mail I received right before reading this post: "THANK YOU for your excellent customer service. Your videos on YouTube -- while I little over my head -- tell how you have a passion for electronics and creating solutions. I have told several people about you and I hope it brings you business. Thank you for sharing your talents with the world." It is so hard to imagine that reflecting on this e-mail might bring me…
Found your channel for those who might be interested. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzx5KAxuUZAjiXbaJpVxuw
Cheers mate :)