OK, I promise this is the last post about watches, and I promise to keep my morbid interests to myself from now on.
Reader Kathleen mentioned Tikker, a life expectancy watch, and I decided to research it:
The principle behind Tikker is very simple. It estimates your life expectancy based on a questionnaire and converts the answers into a countdown display in years, months, days, minutes, and seconds until your appointment with the Grim Reaper. It can even compensate for leap years.
I think I’d wear one, although this might be a dangerous toy that can do damage to one’s mental health.
By the way, do you remember how I said the other day (and yes, I have started quoting myself, this is scary):
We live in the world where there is a soaring number of people whose skills and time are so precious that they hire career management services, employ life coaches, attend networking events, participate in mentorship programs, download endless productivity apps, and schedule their lives in 10-minute increments. At the same time, the gulf between such people and the functionally illiterate / unskilled is widening. There used to be a middle-ground between these two classes but it is disappearing.
Tikker and the 5-minute watch we discussed recently arise precisely from this phenomenon.
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