Where Is Your Dot?
Dan Russell over at Creating Passionate Users wrote this entry about graphics.
He was playing with dots. Each dot represented a day. He filled the screen with enough dots to represent a sixty-year life. It looked like this:
What if you were given a graphic like this that represents your life? What if you KNEW that you had exactly 22,500 days in your life? Where would your dot be right now, today? How would you spend today if you knew that you only have ten dots left? I think we would live a lot differently if we visually realized how short our time on earth is.
Man, I think I’ll print that thing up an put it on my desk. It will remind me that I don’t have forever here and I’ve got to get going.