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Re: My Life in Weeks

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Post by wolpoli »

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.

I am slightly older and I don't really remember very much from around when I started work after graduating. It's kind of sad that works consume a lot of my time but I have no memory to show for it.

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Post by wahnfrieden »

ozim wrote: post #169
Apofis wrote: post #74

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And the best part of it is that there's really only about 4000 weeks for any one of us! It's an interesting metric.

I am closing on to 40yo - having left most likely less than half of that is not what I would describe „best part” :)

same and difficult to stop thinking about this

Re: My Life in Weeks

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Post by Ringz »

Honest question: Why do I need Hugo, Jekyll, etc. for something like this? A simple HTML should be more than enough, or did I miss something?

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Post by Antipodes456 »

ozim wrote: post #169
Apofis wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the best part of it is that there's really only about 4000 weeks for any one of us! It's an interesting metric.

I am closing on to 40yo - having left most likely less than half of that is not what I would describe „best part” :)

Yeah at 47 it’s hard to process ageing… other than statistically you are likely to be happiest from 60 onwards, so something to look forward to!

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Post by Antipodes456 »

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #166
codazoda wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you ever start that non-tech business?

Yes! It’s slow going. I grow and sell plant tissue cultures. Sometimes I get fairly large orders (hundreds of units), but usually I sell a few or a dozen at a time to hobbyists who are into aquaria, terraria, or they want stock to start cultures on their own more easily. I also grow and sell some other stuff, but that’s the bulk of it. I got started on some discord channels with other hobbyists, but I’m in the proces…

Us non-techies dream of tech businesses, hehe.

Not having to deal with ecommerce inventory sounds dreamy

Edit - typo

Re: My Life in Weeks

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Post by lionkor »

Very cool, thank you so much for sharing! One thing that hit me as a European is that you consider president inaugurations interesting enough to put in there! I mean, its a great point of reference, but still interesting to me. I couldn't tell you from when to when Merkel was chancellor, and I couldn't care less.

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Post by Antipodes456 »

massysett wrote: post #123
nyokodo wrote: post #28

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> 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…

Great article from 12 years ago - regrets of the dying:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/01/top-fiv...

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Post by netsharc »

andrewinardeer wrote: post #160

When you die, who completes that week?

A dead man's (or well in this case, a dead woman's) trigger, a cronjob that detects a lack of activity and pushes a "$(date of the beginning of this week): I died."?

Hah, death announcement by bash script...

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Post by vidarh »

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'm Norwegian, but never got used to this, and to this day (I turn 50 this year) my mum will try to communicate time with me using week numbers, and I have to tell her to use dates.

Re: My Life in Weeks

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Post by jokethrowaway »

lionkor wrote: post #196

Very cool, thank you so much for sharing! One thing that hit me as a European is that you consider president inaugurations interesting enough to put in there! I mean, its a great point of reference, but still interesting to me. I couldn't tell you from when to when Merkel was chancellor, and I couldn't care less.

Politicians in the states have more influence and can still do something and effect change. In Europe we're way past that, they are just bureaucrats spinning wheels, extracting value and doing minor changes (some good, some bad), gradually boiling us alive until they extracted any value from society and we collapse.
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