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My Life in Weeks
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#182This is an interesting way of reflecting on one's life. I have calculated my ROL (Rest.Of.Life i.e. before been garbage collected) productive hours (hours dedicated to side projects) in a similar way, and the result panics me. Assume that I still have 37 years before been garbage collected, and 35 years before cognitive degeneration: Starting from today: [Time-frame 1]: I have 200 days before kid goes to primary scho…
30000 hours seems like a lot, more than enough time for anything you might want to do. More than that, there might be enough changes in technology and the world that something you learn in the first 100 hours might not matter in the last 100 hours etc. If you start taking all these complexities into account, it might be better to count at a granularity of weeks rather than hours. Or maybe even ignore time, and focus on goals and aims. You can always make more or less time to fit your goals.
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#183So 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?
In this Lex Fiedman video, they talk about how life is short, and a visualization as a spreadsheet is shown that makes one very concerned: Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #440 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFtjKbXKqbg [ironically, the podcast is very long - over 3 hours - speaking of not wasting time, but after initial annoyance I'm glad I watched it all.]…
Where can I find the visualization? Skipping through I could not find it and I am not sold on it enough to spend almost 4 hours on this.
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
This happens with programming languages also. Lots of people cry "Perl is dead" because its market share is decreasing. But its absolute user count is increasing! It's not a competition for a limited size of pie; the pie is still growing at a frightening pace, along with all its pieces.
Although there used to be a time you could be a "successful blogger" and make enough money from advertising that you could focus on it full time. Those days are long behind us.
Those days brought us to successful blogs/websites to be acquired by bigger corp and then enshittified.
Moreover, what used to be a successful blogger is now a successful YouTuber, no? Because generally speaking, masses prefer to watch and listen to things rather then read.
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#185This reminds of a Radiolab episode about how we perceive the passage of time. The episode starts off talking about someone having a poster showing all of the (average) weeks in a person's life. The episode is about how to make our lives _feel_ longer than they really are. You know how sometimes you are like "damn this day is going by real slow" and sometimes it's the exact opposite. The episode is about why that happens
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I agree with the other poster. You are definitely on the extreme side here. Good for you, really, I would love to have your superpower, but you are not the norm.
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#187Gina 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 loved the old LH when she ran it (and a short time after, before it became fully enshittified). Still have a Steelcase Leap chair, which was the usual runner-up to the Herman Miller Aeron in their office chair votes.
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The issue is that for many FIRE people optimizing everything becomes THE main game.
You retire and then you are constantly thinking "how could I do if XYZ happened?".
It's probably better than having to write your own performance review or grind through a job you don't really enjoy, but it's still not what "live your life" is generally supposed to be.
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#189Is it safe to publish your life in public? Even at a weekly precision? What about privacy & security? Genuinely asking. Could anyone take advantage of it?
Yes, someone definitely could. But also, you have to assess who your potential adversaries are. If you're very worried you would have to be very careful and could publish almost nothing online. You need to think about that balance for yourself and your case.
This is perhaps only a little more useful information than what you could get from someones LinkedIn page. However, there you could possibly also get a network of contacts which would be more valuable. If someone would target you and you specifically for something fraudulent, they would probably start by looking for you on LinkedIn.
I would say this website, if not posted here, would probably be less discoverable than the persons LinkedIn profile.
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
> This is something one says on their deathbed when they have had a good life. I can assure you the reaction at hand is not limited to those you suggest. I know because I faced my own mortality, if only for a brief moment of time, far earlier than I ever expected and earlier than most would prefer I think. And when I did, this exact realisation hit me like a freight train. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced a more p…
I was briefly diagnosed with "99.9% sure it's cancer" before it turned out to be benign. Say about 2-3 weeks.
In those few weeks my main regrets were a) not having done many of the things on my bucket list, and b) not having children or not going to be live long enough to see them grow up.
I'm someone with recurring nightmare about career goals and such. However at that time, work only crossed my mind briefly and was easily dismissed.