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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My goodness. I love this website's activities and educational pages. I really should be studying right now, but here are a few of my favorites so far.

https://neal.fun/lets-settle-this/

https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/

https://neal.fun/life-checklist/

Plenty more to check out!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like 35 is too young to have completed 51/66 tasks in the life checklist. I'm too young for a midlife crisis (fingers crossed, anyways)!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah, I feel like it's heavily skewed towards the beginning of life, but tbf I feel like the cool things you do later in life are harder to quantify? Could add things like:

  • I'm trying to think of how to quantify a "Have 0 debt" option but like, post mortgage or something.
  • Establish a friend group
  • Hang out with at least one member of that friend group for 5 / 10 / 15 years
  • Go to an interesting location as part of your job (conventions count)
  • See a historical human-made artifact in person
  • See a legitimate dinosaur bone in person (not cast)
  • Visit your country's capital
  • Create a piece of art and enter it into something that has it be viewed by people outside your family / friends
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

56/74, little better now.

The have 0 debt one in your context would be like "pay off your mortgage" or for mortgage+ "pay off your mortgage early".

Maybe a "get sued for ethical reasons and win" (refused to allow a small business to defraud me, they tried to sue me and then backed off when they read my defense).

Have a humbling experience with a stranger.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The list also assumes that you'll have children which isn't really on the cards for some people (voluntary or involuntary) and cuts out the possibility of doing a huge chunk of that list.