Show HN: Day by Day – every day of my life
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Show HN: Day by Day – every day of my life
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#2Oh my lord, this is grim. For everything that could have been, your life is reduced to worker bee dots and squares on a graph?
These look like tally marks in a Great Escape prison camp, but instead of four walls containing you, it's time. The West is dead, long live the West /s.
Congrats on the marriage and new family.
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#3I would love to see something like this, but automatically generated using the pictures I took.
My smartphone photos-timeline dates back to 2008, which I can scroll through chronologically. But there is no "overview".
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#4Depressing and inspiring.
My dad gave me seven stones once. He said each is a decade of time you have. Then took two away, and threw them. He said use the rest as you can.
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#5Oh my lord, this is grim. For everything that could have been, your life is reduced to worker bee dots and squares on a graph? These look like tally marks in a Great Escape prison camp, but instead of four walls containing you, it's time. The West is dead, long live the West /s. Congrats on the marriage and new family.
I think this is really all about which framing you choose.
For me, a visualization like this is more about trying to live life with a greater awareness of the passage of time and to give myself the choice to alter course more often.
I don’t think I’d want to put this on my refrigerator, but it’s a useful periodic orientation thing.
For me personally, I’ve found that contemplating these things head on reduces my underlying generalized anxiety, which seems fueled primarily by the uncomfortable things my brain wants to avoid.
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#6I have thought about this as well thinking it would motivate me but idk... if I really cared about not wanting to die I would devote my life to brain to machine consciousness transfer.
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#7My OCD begs that you get rid of the dot representing the day before you were born, thus fixing that final line with one lonely dot on it.
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#8Reminds me of this video: https://youtu.be/JXeJANDKwDc
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#9Reminds me of this quote from Steve Jobs' famous commencement speech:
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.Re: Show HN: Day by Day – every day of my life
#10> 5th January 2023: Found out Rebecca was pregnant.
> 7th February 2023: My father passes away.
That's right up there with For sale: baby shoes, never worn.