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My Life in Weeks

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Re: My Life in Weeks

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Post by guax »

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.

The only life worth living is the one that maximizes shareholder value. /s

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

tokioyoyo wrote: post #136
steve_adams_86 wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I earned over 200k base in Canada and it didn’t make that meaningful of a difference. I gave up chasing money and went to work for an NGO I care about, earning slightly more than half as much as before, and… I love it. I wouldn’t trade incomes if it meant trading the work. I thought the money would help, but with family, something will always suck it up. A trip, furniture, house, extracurricular, etc. I wasn’t gettin…

Hey, it’s pretty cool to hear who went through a similar thing! Had around the same base in Canada, let it go after a couple of years, and trying out something a bit different. Well, with the hopes that it’ll feel good after a little while.

Nice, how's it working out for you so far?

Re: My Life in Weeks

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Post by pknerd »

Such a unique and awesome UX. Such _timeline_ interface could be used for many use cases including biz/org related matters.

I wish she opensource it

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Post by john_minsk »

zoogeny wrote: post #107

I once did the math to figure out, how much space would be required to track my entire life. I thought, I would want to know a couple of things: my location and my activity for every second of my life. Since I generally live relative to the surface of the Earth, my location could be stored in a GPS coord. And since the number of activities I engage in are not that big, I could probably store them as indexes into a ma…

So what's the number?

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Post by jedsundwall »

sircastor wrote: post #156
pronik wrote: post #92

Gina Trapani! That's a name I haven't heard in a long time and at first couldn't place correctly -- for some reason, my mind went to Groklaw, but Lifehacker was the correct answer. Maybe I'm idolizing my own youth and its associated available free time just a tiny bit and I can't actually believe it's been 20 years, but those felt like good times, Web 2.0 with its focus on communication instead of publishing, with Sl…

I did the same thing! For me though it was a bunch podcasts she was on.

She was just on my podcast! https://techsontexts.net/episodes/2025/01/zevin-gina-trapani...

She's the best. :)

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Post by tushar-r »

pronik wrote: post #92

Gina Trapani! That's a name I haven't heard in a long time and at first couldn't place correctly -- for some reason, my mind went to Groklaw, but Lifehacker was the correct answer. Maybe I'm idolizing my own youth and its associated available free time just a tiny bit and I can't actually believe it's been 20 years, but those felt like good times, Web 2.0 with its focus on communication instead of publishing, with Sl…

Haha, I was thinking about her and the old Lifehacker just this last week! :-)

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Post by cyberpunk »

beau_g wrote: post #54
ge96 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd like my KPI metrics etched on my gravestone

If you distill every metric in your life and put it in a Tableau dashboard, the load time would be so long that you could achieve immortality

Only if you have to restart Prometheus…
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