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Post by jb1991 »

jokethrowaway wrote: post #200
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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Post by tonyedgecombe »

adriand wrote: post #102
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.

That’s the conventional wisdom but I think it’s worth challenging it. Or at least, if by “productivity” you mean “work” (I think there’s an important distinction there). There is nothing wrong with your work being the focus of your life. Many people derive great pleasure and satisfaction from, and make a positive impact on the world with, their work. Life without relationships would be a hell of loneliness, but life…

>Life without relationships would be a hell of loneliness, but life without work would be a hell of boredom and meaninglessness.

There are plenty of people who don't work such as children, students, carers and retirees. They find meaning in all sorts of activities outside of work.

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Post by 2b3a51 »

mrctte wrote: post #108
kelnos wrote: post #82

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For me I just want to remember what's gone on in my life better, even if it's sometimes mundane. I've tried short-form daily journaling, but I've only made it around 3 months before I start skipping days and stop doing it altogether. When it comes to doing something new/memorable, I'd be fine with aspiring for just one thing per month (with the assumption that sometimes/often I'd end up with more than that). I think…

I started this in 2015 and I'm still keeping up with it. Maybe it will work for you. https://medium.com/@markracette/make-every-day-matter-9ac6db...

Oliver Rackham (the woodland history bloke in the UK) used small notebooks. Kept one in his pocket. Went everywhere with them. More of a free-form approach.

https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/rackham/1

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Post by swores »

afinlayson wrote: post #150

It's upside down, you build your life from the ground up like a house. But I love the idea, I made something like this in an iOS app 10 years ago. definitely wasn't the right medium for that kind of project

Considering it is documenting, in writing, things that happened, it makes sense that they decided to follow how we write things rather than how we build houses.

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Post by yzydserd »

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.

For me, I employ presidential terms as memorable 4 year labels, much the same as Olympiads (Beijing 2008, Sydney 2000, Barcelona 1992). It’s got zero to do with (geo) political influence. The Olympiads work as point in time “beats”, while presidential terms are “long tones”. Weird memory functions.

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Post by bosse »

vidarh wrote: post #199
silvestrov wrote: post #88

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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.

Week numbers are very useful for static holiday periods like the kid's school fall vacation and winter vacation. In my area, they are always in week 8 and week 40, and as such it's easier to plan accordingly. And my summer vacation is usually weeks 28-30.

Just make sure to turn on week number in your calendar applications, then it might be more useful to you.

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Post by bosse »

I'm pretty close to OP's age, so pretty much within what most people would called middle aged (if lucky). Sometimes I do feel like time is sort of running out, not in a dramatic mid life crisis sense, but as a realization that time's going by pretty fast now. Seeing the potential remaining time visualized like this refreshes my perspective on this a bit, and that there's still time to complete some tasks on the life bucket list.

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Post by apwell23 »

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.

OP is a homosexual ( pls suggest the correct word here) so i think its of special importance to her. i would bet most ppl won't put "cheeto inaugurated" on their life in weeks.
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