Depressing and inspiring.<p>My dad gave me seven stones once. He said each is a decade of time you have. Then took two away, and threw them. He said use the rest as you can.
Reminds me of this quote from Steve Jobs' famous commencement speech:<p><pre><code> Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.</code></pre>
> 5th January 2023: Found out Rebecca was pregnant.<p>> 7th February 2023: My father passes away.<p>That's right up there with <i>For sale: baby shoes, never worn</i>.
I would love to see something like this, but automatically generated using the pictures I took.<p>My smartphone photos-timeline dates back to 2008, which I can scroll through chronologically. But there is no "overview".
Coincidentally, yesterday I finished reading "Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management For Mortals" (<a href="https://www.harvard.com/book/four_thousand_weeks/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.harvard.com/book/four_thousand_weeks/</a>).<p>It's a great book if you feel overwhelmed with all the things you must/should/want to do and struggle getting the most out of your remaining weeks.
>14th March 2018 "Read 'Yes Man' by Danny Boyle. Changes everything."<p>Hmm, Danny Wallace[0] perhaps?<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Man_(book)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Man_(book)</a>
Having a mortality crisis is common after your dad dies, as seems to be happening with the author of this site. This is definitely not the way to deal with it, IMO.
Many commenters have remarked that this is “grim” or “depressing”. I couldn’t disagree more. It is the limited amount of time we have here that gives every day value. This is a reminder to make the most of every day, because our days are numbered.<p>For myself, I’m 26. I’m more than a third of the way done with my life, and I feel like I’m just getting started. But it’s so easy to let each day slip by, without consciously thinking about what I’m doing on a given day, or why. When I see it put into perspective that a third of my life is gone, I feel motivated not to waste the remaining time I have; I think, what am I going to do with those dots?
This is great. For me, visually representing this data always has more impact.<p>If you’ve not read it, I recommend Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman. <a href="https://www.oliverburkeman.com/books" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.oliverburkeman.com/books</a><p>And I just listened to this episode of Hidden Brain the other day which has a similar theme. <a href="https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/the-best-years-of-your-life/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/the-best-years-of-your-life/</a>
Oh, I feel kinda sad now because I was working on a project doing this exact thing, I knew that these memento mori charts were out there but didn't know adding notes to it had also been done. Anyway, I guess I'll still finish my project.
Something similar I made a year ago (way more detailed aggregates but no specific dates) <a href="https://lostmsu.github.io/life33/?life-full" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://lostmsu.github.io/life33/?life-full</a><p>HN discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29063094">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29063094</a>
Would love to have a similar and shorter representation dotting how much time you have left in your youth or being physically and mentally capable of doing things you love.
I love visual representations of time passing like this, they really help to put it in perspective.<p>I use something similiar that only covers a year (kinda like GitHub's activity view) and it helps me visualise that future events, such as a half marathon that seems like ages away, is actually only 8 Sunday runs away.
What i learned from this project is that it will be way brighter if you started it a few decades earlier. Also i have a little complain that i need to wait for too long before a baloon appears at any black square while having an impression that a baloon to a gray dot appears almost instantly. I know this is due to a weak laptop with 1-core CPU which i am using right now.
I look at things like this post and then look at my manager breathing down my neck for an artificial deadline. I have made the wrong choice more than once in life.<p>I wonder - is my humanity lost? Am I going to end up being that old guy with soulless droopy eyes? With no friends? With no real connections?
Oh my lord, this is grim. For everything that could have been, your life is reduced to worker bee dots and squares on a graph?<p>These look like tally marks in a Great Escape prison camp, but instead of four walls containing you, it's time. The West is dead, long live the West /s.<p>Congrats on the marriage and new family.
I do some creative work is very important to me and that I publish as a github page. That's made me realised that in some way the heatmap of my github activity can be viewed as my own version of this.
My dad passed away before 45 days and I can understand how it feels to loose an important person in your life. I am also trying to rethink what to do with life to make maximum impact.
Hi OP - you might be interested in something I tried to launch but didn't succeed at getting traction. sundialcalendar.com<p>The idea is a calendar for your whole life. Would love to find a new home for it.
I have thought about this as well thinking it would motivate me but idk... if I really cared about not wanting to die I would devote my life to brain to machine consciousness transfer.
Is 85 a little conservative for someone born in the 90s? On the flip side what have we achieved in the last thirty years which will allow for people to live beyond that?
Reminds me of this video: <a href="https://youtu.be/JXeJANDKwDc" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://youtu.be/JXeJANDKwDc</a>