I built an interactive visualization that shows you how many weeks of life you have left. Seeing the finiteness of life definitely helps me stop procrastinating!
I like that idea, though I'd probably word it differently. Personally, I do spend 2 hours a day 5 days a week commuting. However, I don't commute by car.
Somehow that's more depressing than the 1500 weeks spent sleeping. At least sleeping is (for the most part) a restorative/enjoyable part of life. Commuting to work is hell.
The classic example is that you will spend over a full month of working hours putting on socks. Some assumptions: living 91 years, taking 30s a day to deal with socks, and work days being around 8hrs.
Yeah, that part kinda frustrated me. The boxes highlight, e.g., that Simone Biles and Michael Phelps has world records in their teens... so what exactly is the takeaway? I'm happy for them, I'm not sad about myself for it -- it's just random trivia.
If you can take your mind off the comparison bit (I think it’s unfortunate they put that there) and look at what’s made you happy so far, then the result might be quite interesting.
I’ve been doing a different version of this sort of activity for a while to help with depression. E.g The first time I travelled alone or moved country might not impress anyone else, but they’re certainly pivotal moments in my own development.
I think we’ll all have our own examples, and we can quite often be dismissive of them.
Yep. Something fishy about got defensive the replies are. Besides, its not just an idea from a "random inter Blog from 6 years ago", Tim Urban also shows it in his popular Ted(x) talk
Does this give everyone a 91 year expected life span? If so, it could be more accurate if it took your current age into account. Older people who have already dodged a lot of chances to die are expected to live to an older age, on average. Younger people are expected to die at a younger age, on average.
Its what I expected, and even worse because you get to compare your life against the milestones of the greatest accomplishments in recent human history.
You could make the memorable pop-ups on hover instead of on click. It would make it faster than trying to find that small rectangle you're supposed to click.
There’s not much of a point to life, so you might as well choose to be happy and chase after pleasurable stimuli. The silver lining to toiling at a career is that it gives you the funding to chase greater and greater stimuli and with less effort. As long as you keep your body healthy the climax of your life will be that much greater. If your career is not doing that for you come up with a new strategy or get a new career, but never change the goal.
Some years ago there was a similar "death clock" site which everyone at the office was sharing. When I opened it, it predicted I had more or less a month to live.
Yes, yes, for a minute I didn't get the joke. I'm dumb :P
"If it takes 50 weeks to become advanced at any skill, you can learn about 44 new skills during your career or 64 if you include retirement. Might as well pick something for this week"
This last statement really stood out to me. Especially as someone who has been feeling like theyre are late to the career phase of life.
50 weeks seems too low. Even if you're going all-in "do nothing but this" I have hard time believing you can go from "no idea" to mastery in less than a year in most subjects.
Advanced, not master. The low hanging fruit is going from novice to intermediate, progressing to advanced requires more effort, and mastering is the really difficult part.
Curious why this seems to make a record in a database with an autoincrement ID for each sumbission(https://www.failflow.com/die/1102). Try putting a number <1500 at the end of the URL to see some strangers' answers.
Hello - it's not an auto-increment, that's the number of weeks calculated from your birthday til today. You can try it with 3000 to see what it looks like.
The section at the end displaying famous figures and their milestones seems a little bit counterintuitive, at least from a certain perspective. If the goal is to get visitors to stop procrastinating, it's pretty disheartening to display that information and make the visitor realize they've likely done nothing in their life by comparison.
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I’ve been doing a different version of this sort of activity for a while to help with depression. E.g The first time I travelled alone or moved country might not impress anyone else, but they’re certainly pivotal moments in my own development.
I think we’ll all have our own examples, and we can quite often be dismissive of them.
I think this should say "364 more weeks".
https://www.watches.com/blog/skull-watches-over-time/
But I don't see credits anywhere.
I was thinking the same thing - in particular, the format and the connection to famous milestones are similar in a way that's uncanny.
For business ideas, originality is great, but execution is everything.
For hacker ideas, originality is great, but the hack value is everything.
There's nothing gained by poo-pooing someone else's fun little project.
Be positive, encourage more hacking, encourage more people building things.
I had the total opposite thought. Seeing this makes me realize how stupid it is to toil one's life away for a career
(Basically, if you have the financial means, live the best life you can. Don't toil it away on non-meaningful stuff.)
Yes, yes, for a minute I didn't get the joke. I'm dumb :P
Also, does this take into account leap years?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON8cTi5NSMc
This last statement really stood out to me. Especially as someone who has been feeling like theyre are late to the career phase of life.