Memento
Mori
Every week is numbered. Enter your birthdate to see yours.
How it works
A Memento Mori calendar is a grid of weeks. You mark the ones already lived. The empty cells are the ones you still have, if you get something like 80 years.
Enter a birthdate. The result is a bookmarkable 80-year picture, as a table or a burst. It will not tell you what to value. It will make the container visible.
The habit behind it is memento mori: remember that you will die, closely enough that this week stops being a rehearsal. The journal has the longer notes on Stoics, Steve Jobs, and the practice.
From the journal
- How Many Weekends Do You Have Left?
A simple count of the weekends left in a life of about 80 years, by age, and what to do with the number.
- What Each Age Looks Like
What an 80-year life looks like at 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, and 70: how much of the grid is filled, and how many weeks remain.
- What Makes a Life Rich?
A reflection on enough, attention, and the weeks we keep postponing, inspired by J.L. Collins’s The Simple Path to Wealth.