In 2015 a writer named Tim Urban sat down and counted the days he had left with his parents. He was 34, healthy, both parents alive and well. The number came back around 300. Less time than he spent with them in any single year of his childhood.
The post is called The Tail End, on a blog called Wait But Why. The idea is to stop counting your life in years and start counting it in events. Reach 90 and you get about 4,680 weeks, and every one of them fits on a single sheet of paper. Maybe 60 more winters after that. If you read five books a year, that is 300 books, picked from every book ever written.
Those things at least spread out evenly. A third of the way through life means a third of the way through your pizzas. Time with the people you love does not work like that. Almost all of it sits at the very start. Then it is gone.
For your first 18 years you are around your parents nearly every day. Then you leave for college or a job in another city, and a normal adult sees their parents maybe 10 days a year. So the day you move out, you are already at 93 percent. Urban was living in the last 5 percent and had no idea until he drew the chart. He called it the tail end.
It does not stop at parents. His two sisters, after a whole childhood in the same house, had around 15 percent of their time together left. The four friends he played cards with most days in high school were down to their last 7 percent. Nobody had a fight. Nobody moved away angry. Life quietly spends the time for you while you assume there is plenty left.
You do not have to be old to be near the end with someone. If your parents are alive and you live in a different city, you have probably already used more than 90 percent of the days you will ever spend in the same room as them.
His one instruction is about that last stretch. When you are down to the final days with someone you love, treat that time like what it is, which is almost gone. The rest is the tail end, and it is much shorter than it feels.
love this take!
agent-led growth feels inevitable and the second-order effects are that it unlocks distribution for niche but highly valuable services
a solo dev can compile the best dataset for say sneakers or world of warcraft items, list it on a discovery platform and get paid when an agent on the other side of the world needs that information
if I’m building a trading agent, I might want prediction market data, several news sources, and social media feeds. putting all of that together today task a bit of work
a simple discovery and access layer for these services is needed and x402 is a way to make that permissionless
ETHEREUM PRIVACY ECOSYSTEM
One of the many things we aimed to bring for the upcoming Congress was this map. Focused on end-users first, mapping out as many apps, tools, projects and anything Ethereum and privacy related as possible.
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@0xfourlife @s0tric@zygote_pods@base What was the initial spark behind zygote, and what now drives its evolution into a living organism within the base ecosystem?🦠
Glorious Evolution
think NFTs are dead? let me prove you wrong
interviewed @s0tric the founder of @zygote_pods
zygote is my favorite NFT collection & community on @base. i love the vibe and how it’s growing
i asked the founder 7 q's that matter to holders with some alpha and ideas inside 👇
@holdallthetime @token_works It's not just about switch network. If conditions change on the fly, this is so stupid. And this means it’s better not to expect anything adequate from the creator.
@token_works Token works but not works from the start. Really, non adequate timings, no network switch, change of conditions before the mint... but happy Roman, it's cool
As a rebased retard bera I spent my hour to create an excel sheet which will help you narrow down your future possible traits.Just count your question marks and type the number in the corresponding first cell and put it in the vending machine to visualize
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