Time Is Weird

If you live to be 77-years-old (the average lifespan in the wealthy world), you will have lived about 4,000 weeks.

That’s…intimidating, isn’t it? It’s not a small number, but it also seems impossibly minuscule to encompass everything we’ll ever do—no second time around, no take-backs.

I think about that number sometimes, because although I hope to live beyond this average (it’s a bit higher for women than men, a bit lower during pandemic-times, and varies by several years between wealthy c...