Huy Pham··559%life
I had 55.9% of my life left at the point this post was published
- DESIGN
I just refreshed this site's look:
The 2 new symbols
- The number in the 3 windows is the percentage of my life I have left. Read them together like this: 55.9843687%.
- How did I calculate it? Based on the average Vietnamese male's lifespan (by The Global Economy, 2022). Perhaps humanity can figure out immortality this decade, but I may also very well die of some other stupid cause. Best stick to the average.
- To the right: every post now contains the first window of % of my life left when I wrote each post (red arrow)
- At nine o'clock is the Vegvísir, an Icelandic symbol for navigation, representing my wish for how to spend my life well.
- But how do you spend a life well? I agree with Benjamin Franklin's prayer O Powerful Goodness: to continually discover where my "truest interest" is, and have the courage to do it.
- The design is somewhat inspired by the beautiful A. Lange & Söhne Lange 1
Why?
This creates an incredible effect of seeing how my life just ticks away (especially in Grid View!), and what kind of thought I had at the time.
Which incentivizes me to write more.
Bonus
Earlier this month, when a whole number went down 🥹:
I've been obsessed with the topic of time since forever. Unsolved.
From my 2014 Photography portfolio
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