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Re: My Life in Weeks

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Post by beaugunderson »

HeatrayEnjoyer wrote: post #93
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The first ~1000 are spent in the the very limited tutorial area. I think it's kinda strange that you're saying up to age 19 is "the very limited tutorial area", as if it doesn't count. Up to age 3 or 4, before you have stable memory, perhaps I could understand, but I'm well, well into middle age and I think of some of the time between say 10-19 as the most vivid in terms of my memories, friends, direction of my lif…

I have almost no <20 memories and I'm barely 40.

That seems very extreme. I remember my entire childhood from about 4 years old on.

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Post by barrkel »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #85
sigmoid10 wrote: post #83

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4000 in total. The first ~1000 are spent in the the very limited tutorial area.

> The first ~1000 are spent in the the very limited tutorial area. I think it's kinda strange that you're saying up to age 19 is "the very limited tutorial area", as if it doesn't count. Up to age 3 or 4, before you have stable memory, perhaps I could understand, but I'm well, well into middle age and I think of some of the time between say 10-19 as the most vivid in terms of my memories, friends, direction of my lif…

I scarcely recognize the person I was at 19 as the same person as me.

I have almost no recollection of school except for maybe a couple of dozen moments and a handful - no more than 4 or so - acquaintances. They were friends at the time, but we went to different colleges in different towns, we're not close now.

I remember books I read, but they're detached from a timeline. I remember programming - that was the most formative thing I learned, and it was outside school - but I have very little recollection of actual time spent, just that I did a huge amount of learning.

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Post by massysett »

nyokodo wrote: post #28
picafrost wrote: post #21

So much of our life is consumed by work. Seeing your lifespan laid bare like this, there's a perverse instinct to optimize what remains. Have to be more productive, more efficient. But it's a bit like seeing you're bleeding out and deciding to optimize your blood donation schedule, isn't it?

> Have to be more productive, more efficient Most people on their deathbed would counsel you to focus on relationships rather than productivity.

This is something one says on their deathbed when they have had a good life.

Maybe some people who have wasted half their life being completely unproductive say “I wish I focused on relationships more” on their deathbed. But many others might say “I wasted my whole life, I wish I got it together.” The thing is, those people don’t write books or give seminars on how to live a good life. They die alone and are quickly forgotten.

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Post by teaearlgraycold »

silvestrov wrote: post #88
morsecodist wrote: post #73

Weeks is the most terrifying unit of time to think in. Short enough so you have a good sense of how long it feels but long enough to add up quickly.

Fun fact: Nordic countries use week numbers for all sorts of planning, e.g. vacation period, school events, company planning, statistics reporting, ... All calendars show week numbers.

So that’s why Minecraft uses weeks for prerelease versioning.

Re: My Life in Weeks

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Post by krykp »

silvestrov wrote: post #88
morsecodist wrote: post #73

Weeks is the most terrifying unit of time to think in. Short enough so you have a good sense of how long it feels but long enough to add up quickly.

Fun fact: Nordic countries use week numbers for all sorts of planning, e.g. vacation period, school events, company planning, statistics reporting, ... All calendars show week numbers.

I use GNOME with week numbers shown in[0]! Find it super useful.

I am also a big fan of setting yearly goals. Been doing this for a couple of years now. This has sort of converged into a tradition of having ~12 goals per year.

Each item is something quantifiable and achievable. For example, a goal of mine is 'losing x amount of weight', as opposed to 'becoming fit' - this I won't expand into other domains however, if the context is making a game, it would be 'publishing a game', and not 'publishing a game that sells a million copies', as the latter depends on factors outside of your control, luck, etc.

The way I set up my own goals, they are achievable if I were to focus on these for a quarter alone. They are not big, huge deals. But I don't focus on these for a quarter of course, I have to go to work, and I have a family and loved ones that I enjoy spending time with. Yet it is also an anchor I look at occasionally, and if the list is having too little progress, I get the message that I should work on these for a while. I find it to be a nice balance.

0: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.calendar show-weekdate true

Re: My Life in Weeks

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Post by satvikpendem »

torben-friis wrote: post #106
HeatrayEnjoyer wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have almost no <20 memories and I'm barely 40.

That's weird to me. I'm in my mid thirties and I feel the bulk of my memories are in the 13-23 range and everything's been a quick blur since then. In fact when I started a dream diary for a personal experiment, I'm in highschool in most of them - literally, as the dreams take place in the building.

Learning lucid dreaming as well?

Re: My Life in Weeks

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Post by morgante »

karparov wrote: post #42
hnthrowaway0315 wrote: post #36

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Yup. My advice to young people is -- if you can't figure out what to do in life, make more $$. With enough $$ you will have a world of time to ponder what to do. I also regret that I gave up a FAANG level opportunity because my faily doesn't want me to go to another city. I would hit well over 200K TC by now -- a very comfortable salary in Canada.

Quite the irony that the thread started with reminiscing about life and purpose and needing time and valuing relationships and you guys go into the "need to make more money" spiel. Here comes a secret: It will never be enough for you. It's not the money that counts. It's the ratio of income versus expenses, if anything. And if you grow one and don't stop the other one from growing in unison, then you have gained noth…

> It will never be enough for you.

That's not a good assumption to make for everyone. There are many people who do grow income without growing expenses (see the whole financial independence movement).

I spend about as much now as I did 7 years ago when I made 4x less.

Re: My Life in Weeks

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Post by torben-friis »

satvikpendem wrote: post #127
torben-friis wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's weird to me. I'm in my mid thirties and I feel the bulk of my memories are in the 13-23 range and everything's been a quick blur since then. In fact when I started a dream diary for a personal experiment, I'm in highschool in most of them - literally, as the dreams take place in the building.

Learning lucid dreaming as well?

Not exactly but close!

I went through the lucid dreaming rabbit hole when I was 17, I recently found the diary from back then and was curious to see how different the dreams are now.

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