2,000 Saturdays (Apparently)

Rejecting the idea of a right way to live

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I got an email this week that began, “You have 2,000 Saturdays left (maybe).”

Which is… a way to start. It went on to explain (with gobs of confidence) that most people will “waste” them. That Saturdays are subtly revealing who you are becoming, that scrolling and “relaxing” are actually forms of hiding, and that each weekend should be spent building, creating, compounding toward some future version of yourself who will, presumably, be very impressed with your output. There was math involved, quite a bit of it actually. “If you waste 50 Saturdays a year, you’ve wasted a full year of potential output.”