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There's something existentially terrifying about being able to quickly zoom out from out from a view of 5 minute intervals to one of several decades.


Terrifying yet inspiring! Must make the best of such short existence :)


I'm not trying to be negative, but I disagree. It's deeply unsettling.


I wouldn't go so far as to call it deeply unsettling, but it does seem odd. For me, I think the reason is that I now have the desire to try and fill in all of those empty decades. And if you have only a few reoccurring tasks (go to gym), then that's all that appears year after year. That was a little odd too.

People don't do well when confronted with planning at that scale. Not only that, but when looking at decade scale, you probably don't want to see daily tasks bleeding in. It's one thing to see a five or ten year plan. It's another to see that you're still planning on going to the gym at 8:30, June 7th, 2026.


Respice post te. Hominem te memento.


Translation for us lesser humans: "Look after you [to the time after your death] and remember you're [only] a man.


Reminds me of Your Life in Weeks. http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html


Exactly my thoughts too! Might be humbling and perspective shifting.


This could be a nice UI to show a facebook timeline for example.




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