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Show HN: Life calendar – use the concept of Memento mori to embrace every week

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Re: Show HN: Life calendar – use the concept of Memento mori to embrace every week

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Just to download a pdf...

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Re: Show HN: Life calendar – use the concept of Memento mori to embrace every week

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Love the concept, not so much the execution. The "Login after customizing everything" and "Pay to remove the watermark which renders the calendar useless" are borderline dark patterns. But on the positive, it gave me an idea to make my own version of this calendar, sans the money grab.

- What you did that week ? - I tried to scam some people on the internet with some cheap pdf

Re: Show HN: Life calendar – use the concept of Memento mori to embrace every week

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I read a quote today that I think is relevant: > “Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make…

Thank you for this comment!

I'd like to add another detail, which is that people generally accept the idea that "deathbed perspective" is a highly privileged perspective, but with no real justification for this position. Here's a good article that questions this idea: https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-the-deathbed-perspective-consi...

Re: Show HN: Life calendar – use the concept of Memento mori to embrace every week

#24

Just to download a pdf... The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes: To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service. To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user. For the performance of a con…

Cheers for the feedback :) I used a free privacy policy generator, which in retrospect was a mistake as it is much broader than my intentions. If anyone is worried, no data will leave the identity provider service.

Re: Show HN: Life calendar – use the concept of Memento mori to embrace every week

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I read a quote today that I think is relevant: > “Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make…

I saw a tree yesterday. It was beautiful. The sun was close to setting, the sky was completely clear. The color of the sky went from a beautiful clear blue down to a very pale almost green color at the horizon, backdropping the tree. I may remember this the rest of my life.

Re: Show HN: Life calendar – use the concept of Memento mori to embrace every week

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Approaching the age of 40, I have to admit that I'll probably live a very boring and forgettable life.

I guess I'll guide my son to find some passion early in his life, so that even though his life might as well be a boring one, he himself may have the luxury of regarding it as a slightly more interesting one.

Re: Show HN: Life calendar – use the concept of Memento mori to embrace every week

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The thought of not having anything significant to remember a week by, and then thinking about how finite those are seems to depress me more than inspire.

I feel the same way, and also about those apps people use to record a short clip or take a photograph every day. But I gather they are relatively popular, so what do I know!

Those short clip apps seem like an Instagram profile which has been converted into a video.

Re: Show HN: Life calendar – use the concept of Memento mori to embrace every week

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post #20

Love the concept, not so much the execution. The "Login after customizing everything" and "Pay to remove the watermark which renders the calendar useless" are borderline dark patterns. But on the positive, it gave me an idea to make my own version of this calendar, sans the money grab.

If you get to do it - let HN know. I like the idea but despise the dark patterns that author employed in his work.
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