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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.
by morsecodist 2y ago
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.
- Apofis 2y agoAnd the best part of it is that there's really only about 4000 weeks for any one of us! It's an interesting metric.
- sigmoid10 2y ago4000 in total. The first ~1000 are spent in the the very limited tutorial area.
- hn_throwaway_99 2y ago> The first ~1000 are spent in the the very limited tutorial area. I think it's kinda strange that you're saying up to age 19 is "the very limited tutorial area", as if it doesn't count. Up to age 3 or 4, before you have stable memory, perhaps I could understand, but I'm well, well into middle age and I think of some of the time between say 10-19 as the most vivid in terms of my memories, friends, direction of my life, etc.
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y agoI have almost no <20 memories and I'm barely 40.
- torben-friis 2y agoThat's weird to me. I'm in my mid thirties and I feel the bulk of my memories are in the 13-23 range and everything's been a quick blur since then. In fact when I started a dream diary for a personal experiment, I'm in highschool in most of them - literally, as the dreams take place in the building.
- satvikpendem 2y agoLearning lucid dreaming as well?
- torben-friis 2y agoNot exactly but close! I went through the lucid dreaming rabbit hole when I was 17, I recently found the diary from back then and was curious to see how different the dreams are now.
- wolpoli 2y agoI am slightly older and I don't really remember very much from around when I started work after graduating. It's kind of sad that works consume a lot of my time but I have no memory to show for it.
- Unbefleckt 2y agoI find this really interesting. I left school 20 years ago, I've lived a wildly varied life and been all around the world on adventures outside of general tourism, with highs and lows tied to locations I am beyond familiar with, yet far too many of my dreams are in that damn school.
- Danilka 2y agoMaybe trauma blocked memories?
- kdmtctl 2y agoIt will be back later, when you’ve left behind more than you can anticipate ahead. Just give it time.
- guelo 2y agoSame here, I have a few but a lot of holes. Can't think of my day to day teen years at all.
- beaugunderson 2y agoThat seems very extreme. I remember my entire childhood from about 4 years old on.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoNo, what you said sounds extremely extreme. Remembering a lot of stuff since ~4? For me, that feels inconceivable! Myself, I remember maybe one or two things per year from 4+ onwards if I focus; flashes of images. This gradually ramps up after ~12yo, and I can actually say I remember some events from around 16+ well enough to describe them and place in rich context. Properly detailed memory? That starts for me somewhere after 20. I'm 36.
- darkwater 2y agoI agree with the other poster. You are definitely on the extreme side here. Good for you, really, I would love to have your superpower, but you are not the norm.
- beaugunderson 2y agoSure, I may be toward the other end of the extreme. It's certainly not eidetic memory, I just have tons of memories from all years of my life >=4. But I do think "basically no memories before 20" is close to the other extreme.
- jebarker 2y agoSame - I'm 43 and I have very few memories of my childhood. My 20s are pretty much a blur now too.
- lordnacho 2y agoHmm, I don't know. You can't really list your memories, but when something comes up, they appear.
- LoganDark 2y ago> I think of some of the time between say 10-19 as the most vivid in terms of my memories, friends, direction of my life, etc. Me too. I think 12-14 is the most vivid for me... I used to enjoy stuff a lot more fully and completely than I seem to be able to nowadays. I miss that.
- abuani 2y agoThat makes sense. Just young enough to be able to fully emerse yourself in activities, while not quite old enough to have real worries. Of course I'm saying that from a position of privilege, but that was a sweet spot for me as well.
- LoganDark 2y agoI did have many worries back then :) I just hadn't been practically crippled by trauma yet like I am today.
- barrkel 2y agoI scarcely recognize the person I was at 19 as the same person as me. I have almost no recollection of school except for maybe a couple of dozen moments and a handful - no more than 4 or so - acquaintances. They were friends at the time, but we went to different colleges in different towns, we're not close now. I remember books I read, but they're detached from a timeline. I remember programming - that was the most formative thing I learned, and it was outside school - but I have very little recollection of actual time spent, just that I did a huge amount of learning.
- jhrmnn 2y agoI have it the same! But it’s not common. People are always puzzled by this lack of episodic memory.
- Tarq0n 2y agoHave you heard of Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory disorder? For me it's memory as it relates to myself that barely functions, I can remember facts just fine.
- JauntTrooper 2y agoWow... really? I'm in my 40s and I remember my school days vividly. I remember like ~20-30 specific lessons and events from 4th grade alone.
- jks 2y agoOliver Burkeman wrote a book about this, named "Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals". The main point (at least as I remember it) is that there are way more books to read, links to click, and things to do than you can fit in your lifetime, so it's a delusion that you could ever get to the end of your to-do list.
- ozim 2y agoI am closing on to 40yo - having left most likely less than half of that is not what I would describe „best part” :)
- wahnfrieden 2y agosame and difficult to stop thinking about this
- Antipodes456 2y agoYeah at 47 it’s hard to process ageing… other than statistically you are likely to be happiest from 60 onwards, so something to look forward to!
- silvestrov 2y agoFun fact: Nordic countries use week numbers for all sorts of planning, e.g. vacation period, school events, company planning, statistics reporting, ... All calendars show week numbers.
- vidarh 2y agoI'm Norwegian, but never got used to this, and to this day (I turn 50 this year) my mum will try to communicate time with me using week numbers, and I have to tell her to use dates.
- bosse 2y agoWeek numbers are very useful for static holiday periods like the kid's school fall vacation and winter vacation. In my area, they are always in week 8 and week 40, and as such it's easier to plan accordingly. And my summer vacation is usually weeks 28-30. Just make sure to turn on week number in your calendar applications, then it might be more useful to you.
- vidarh 2y agoThen I still need to consult my calendars, while dates I can relate to the current date without that extra step.
- teaearlgraycold 2y agoSo that’s why Minecraft uses weeks for prerelease versioning.
- krykp 2y agoI use GNOME with week numbers shown in[0]! Find it super useful. I am also a big fan of setting yearly goals. Been doing this for a couple of years now. This has sort of converged into a tradition of having ~12 goals per year. Each item is something quantifiable and achievable. For example, a goal of mine is 'losing x amount of weight', as opposed to 'becoming fit' - this I won't expand into other domains however, if the context is making a game, it would be 'publishing a game', and not 'publishing a game that sells a million copies', as the latter depends on factors outside of your control, luck, etc. The way I set up my own goals, they are achievable if I were to focus on these for a quarter alone. They are not big, huge deals. But I don't focus on these for a quarter of course, I have to go to work, and I have a family and loved ones that I enjoy spending time with. Yet it is also an anchor I look at occasionally, and if the list is having too little progress, I get the message that I should work on these for a while. I find it to be a nice balance. 0: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.calendar show-weekdate true
- tintumon 2y agoIt's so common but at the same so confusing that we have a dedicated website in Sweden to keep track https://vecka.nu/ https://vecka.nu/
- jks 2y agoWe have that in Finland too: https://viikkonumero.fi/ https://viikkonumero.fi/ That one also lets you look up other weeks by number, which is occasionally useful. But the calmer design of https://vecka.nu https://vecka.nu is very pleasant!
- interludead 2y agoBut on the flip side, having a weekly focus can make things more manageable, like breaking down a big goal into smaller chunks
- kamaal 2y ago>>Weeks is the most terrifying unit of time to think in. Indeed. A week is basically 2% of a year, which is quite a chunk. You basically get 50 ticks a year, and that ticks quite fast. In case you are wondering how an year goes by that fast, this is how.