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Cool - it'd be fun to wear one of these on your sleeve, and glare meaningfully at it when people start droning on about nothing in a meeting or whatever. Although, it'd also be some embarrassing morbid irony if you run into an accident somewhere.
A variation on this that I love is Tim Urban's "Your life in weeks" visualization. https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html This is a progress bar, not a countdown clock. Personally, I find it super helpful in keeping perspective on the value of my time. I do not mean to detract from OP's work (which is cool), I just thought others reading the comment might enjoy this other article too.
i wanted to make one of these but in the form of a watch you wear on your wrist. its interesting how some people are fascinated with these kinds of countdowns and others hate looking at them. me and my other cs buddy both think its interesting -- he has the tim urban poster on his wall. another friend of mine doesnt even want to look at it.
Pebble is defunct, but I'm sure you could do something similar with one of the current smartwatch offerings.
A variation on this that I love is Tim Urban's "Your life in weeks" visualization. https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html This is a progress bar, not a countdown clock. Personally, I find it super helpful in keeping perspective on the value of my time. I do not mean to detract from OP's work (which is cool), I just thought others reading the comment might enjoy this other article too.
i will never forget when, in early 2016, i saw this for the first time. when looking at the visualization in terms of weeks, i simply cant believe it, even today. i just looked at it again now. it simply cant be so few weeks. it just cant. and yet it is. i cant believe all the time i wasted.
Unfortunately it hasn't helped me do better with my time. I'd love to here more people's changes for not wasting the little time they have (like me spending hours a day on HN, FB, Netflix, etc...)
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i will never forget when, in early 2016, i saw this for the first time. when looking at the visualization in terms of weeks, i simply cant believe it, even today. i just looked at it again now. it simply cant be so few weeks. it just cant. and yet it is. i cant believe all the time i wasted.
Here's a day version I saw in the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo https://imgur.com/HnYCtlU Unfortunately it hasn't helped me do better with my time. I'd love to here more people's changes for not wasting the little time they have (like me spending hours a day on HN, FB, Netflix, etc...)
If you enjoy it, or relax, or get inspired, it isn't wasting your time.
Can't be productive 100% of the time, and punishing yourself when you aren't makes you feel worse.
Tangent: I see example.jpg added to the main repo, just for the readme. If you don't want to store binary blobs, there's an alternative: open a new issue, then copy-paste the image into the issue. It'll give you a link that you can use in a readme permanently.
A simple improvement would be to use the average life expectancy given a certain age. This can be calculated with the age specific death rates for a population: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_table