Time is also function of your surroundings
Good job, good social network => life is just long enough.
Toxic job: life is a sluggish torture.
No job: life is going too fast and you have no time to choose which direction is best.
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#52This conflates life expectancy at birth with your current life expectancy. Those are wildly different. They were even more different in the past when life expectancy at birth was below 30, and most healthy adults lived past 70. But they're still very different.
One of my favourite simple plots: https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2013/05/Life-expectancy-b...
What's with that huge drop in life expectancy between 1910-1920?
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#53How many of you are waiting for X to happen before you can do Y? Maybe we can share that so other people can give us their insights.
For me, I naively quit my job last year joining the indie hacker movement of creating my own online business. And now I'm just obsessed with finishing it and getting it to the same mrr as my last job's salary before I can do anything else.
I used to travel all the time but now all I can think of is my daughter's future. Pretty hard to go live your life when your financial situation becomes a mess :/
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of my favourite simple plots: https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2013/05/Life-expectancy-b...
What's with that huge drop in life expectancy between 1910-1920?
Influenza epidemic of 1918 possibly?
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#55This conflates life expectancy at birth with your current life expectancy. Those are wildly different. They were even more different in the past when life expectancy at birth was below 30, and most healthy adults lived past 70. But they're still very different.
> most healthy adults lived past 70
Citation needed. Or, qualification of what you mean by "healthy adult".
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#57Feeling bad that you’re not using your time to the max is one of the worst ways to use your time.
You can spend a minute to think about it though; I know too many people who were going to really enjoy themselves after getting their pension only to find out they actually hate not working or that they in fact hate their hobbies (fishing might be nice 1 hour a month when you are relaxing from work, but suddenly having 16 hours 7 days a week to fish drives many insane) (and so wasting 10+ years being angry, depressed and searching) or dying too quickly after. It is strange how people who never 'had a little house in Spain (or whatever) in that pitoresk village' plan their entire life to that that point thinking it is nirvana while they could have done that all along.
I know millionaire managers/directors of my age (around 50) say this for the past 20+ years and when I ask why they do not do it now because a) you might not like it b) you might not make it, they seem to find many excuses, some of which are even money related (and they have millions now).
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#58Feeling bad that you’re not using your time to the max is one of the worst ways to use your time.
So many people are saving up their happiness for a day when they feel like they can finally be allowed to truly be happy. Sometimes, the day never comes, and the happiness has expired.
About 10 years ago I moved onto a wonderfully quiet street that has only old people. All three of my immediate neighbors (either side plus straight across the street) were couples that had just retired and had been saving for a long time in order to go traveling. Two of the men got too sick to travel and died within a year. The remaining man got sick and almost died, but he’s hanging on. He and his wife both too sick to travel. My wife now reminds me weekly that we need to get our travel and adventure in now before we retire, and not wait. Actively working on it…
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#59Seems broken? Tells me I have 60-some percent of my life remaining (I was born 1964, when I return to settings it seems stuck on 1992 - for which 60% would make sense).
I was born in 1992, so all my testing passed - ship it!
At first I didn't even notice that you can give it year of birth and I was wondering how it knows when I was born.
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