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Re: My Life in Weeks

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Post by NoLinkToMe »

999900000999 wrote: post #75
Gooblebrai wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Plus none of us know how much time we actually have Precisely because of this, you should be making music and games now. You never know if once you reach the amount of money you desire, death will knock on your door. If you are already doing it, that's great. But so many people defer the enjoyment and overwork themselves waiting for that future where they hit the number.

That's a good point, I make plenty of music, and every now and then I release a really small game. I can't imagine more than 100 people have played them, but in a strange way that's okay. It was never for other people.

I'd love to check out your games, if you'd be willing to post. I've spent 10 years dabbling in indie game dev when I was young, there's something nostalgic about seeing people's projects. Never published anything myself btw, it always stayed firmly in demo stage haha.

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Post by interludead »

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.

But on the flip side, having a weekly focus can make things more manageable, like breaking down a big goal into smaller chunks

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Post by interludead »

picafrost wrote: post #21

So 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?

We spend so much time optimizing for productivity that we sometimes miss the bigger picture: the quality of life itself, not just the quantity of tasks we can check off

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Post by pronik »

sneak wrote: post #113
pronik wrote: post #92

Gina 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…

There are still tons of websites (more now than ever) not owned by gigantic corporations. It's not their fault that you and the masses mostly stopped going to them in favor of facebook and twitter and instagram and, of course, apps. (You're on one right now, naturally.) I get the same feeling when people say "RSS is dead". I read dozens of websites via RSS and my RSS reader still works fine. Very few blogs I want to…

I'm firmly on the RSS bandwagon though. The shift comes from much more limited time and I need to filter what I can use it for.

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Post by etoulas »

jll29 wrote: post #104
picafrost wrote: post #21

So 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.]…

Do you mind pointing out the Moment when they show this?

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Post by scarface_74 »

apwell23 wrote: post #220
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.

Yes and no. All Presidents have been more or less hostile to gay people at least when they were inaugurated until weirdly enough Biden.

Clinton signed the “Don’t Ask or Don’t Tell” legislation and Obama was originally in favor of the the protection of marriage act. They both have changed as the winds have changed.

Also she called out that prop 8 banning gay marriage was signed in California.

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

Antipodes456 wrote: post #195
steve_adams_86 wrote: post #166

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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

No kidding. It blows my mind how bad e-commerce is. And how expensive it is. I had to accept that no payment processor would ever be ideal, no cost structure would ever make sense, I’d have to relinquish access to my own money to a degree, etc. I thought it would be better by 2025 but it’s the worst part of the business I’ve worked on so far, haha.
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