<story><title>Life is Short (2016)</title><url>http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>euske</author><text>As a side note, not only one&amp;#x27;s life is short, but the entire human history is short. I&amp;#x27;m over 40 and it struck me that if I repeated my life 50 times it would already go back B.C.! We&amp;#x27;ve invented and developed ALL the things in between. I don&amp;#x27;t think I could live 50 times and do that myself. That was some amazing achievement, humans.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattbierner</author><text>In 2016 I did a small project that visualizes time as a series of hypothetical cross generation conversations (such as a 5 year old listening to an 80 year old&amp;#x27;s stories) [0]. Really fascinating to see how recent seemingly ancient events such as the American civil war or the invention of the printing press are when examined in these terms.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mattbierner.github.io&amp;#x2F;forward-propagation&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mattbierner.github.io&amp;#x2F;forward-propagation&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Life is Short (2016)</title><url>http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>euske</author><text>As a side note, not only one&amp;#x27;s life is short, but the entire human history is short. I&amp;#x27;m over 40 and it struck me that if I repeated my life 50 times it would already go back B.C.! We&amp;#x27;ve invented and developed ALL the things in between. I don&amp;#x27;t think I could live 50 times and do that myself. That was some amazing achievement, humans.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>goldenkey</author><text>That is the sole reason companies calculate &amp;#x27;man hours.&amp;#x27; You simply can&amp;#x27;t do exponential work just by living 50 times over. Other people in parallel matter a ton. Interesting point though</text></comment>