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#31

Hi, I made this! I don't know how it got to this page. Thanks for the support :)

Interesting.

Perhaps it would make sense to reverse time from bottom to top. Right now it reflects the standard flow of time, forward, like on a watch. But in reality, our time is only running out.

When you have a timeline going from top to bottom, it feels like it will keep going further, but if you reverse it, you see what's left — without illusion.

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#32

As a 54 year old, viewing the grid with the Weber-Fechner "psychophysics" grid is depressing as hell. Thanks.

I completely understand this. My goal is not making people feel bad, to the contrary. It's so marvelous to me to realize how precious time is.

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#33
The share & restore feature is not working for me. Only the birthday is restored. Other settings & skip tutorial are reset.

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#36
Bug report - on iPad it's impossible to exit full screen mode, need to reload the page.

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#37
post #33

The share & restore feature is not working for me. Only the birthday is restored. Other settings & skip tutorial are reset.

If you open it on another machine / browser you'll have a fresh start. Note that it's serverless. Share URLs serialize layer and period data. You should see layers and periods that you were viewing when you clicked Share.

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#38

So what is it for? To know how life periods span and change one into another? I like it but I am struggling to find a use case

Time is precious. It's so you get a birds eye view of how you've spent your time, and decide how to spend it next

but the only "how" you can add is by connecting your linkedin? is that the only meaning my life is allowed to have? i can't talk about all the cool stuff i do on linkedin, i'd never get a job again.

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#40

I like the use of the Weber-Fechner law, that's a lens I use to think of age as well :) The idea is that experienced time is proportional to log time, i.e. it's why time seems to move faster as we age. You could even measure your age in powers of two, like we do octaves.

i don't think time moves faster as we age, i think our perceived duration of early life grows because we keep thinking about it.

for example, i have spent 35 years thinking about the events which took place at age 8, but i have only spent 8 years thinking about the events of age 35.

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