HOURGLASS.

Volume I  ·  A Life in Weeks

A life is about four thousand weeks. Here are yours.

Every square is one week, and every row is one year of an eighty-year life. The filled ones are already behind you.

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Behind youStill ahead1 square = 1 week
Weeks behind you
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Weeks still ahead
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Sleep, work and the phone have already claimed most of the weeks still ahead. The next page shows how many are left over once they have had their share.

Volume II  ·  One Habit at a Time

How many hours
of your life,
have you spent?

Pick something you do every day, put in the hours, and see how much of your life it adds up to.

I.  The measurement

II.  The reckoning

380.2days

of your life, given to scrolling.

Hours
9,125
Weeks
54.3
Waking years
1.56

An essay

On the arithmetic of attention.

Nobody tracks their hours the way they track their money. The math is simple once you do it. The number is usually surprising.

Read the essay →

Journal

The long calculation.

All articles →