Life in Weeks
Visualise your life as a 90-year grid of 4,680 weeks
One square = one week. Each row is a year. 90 rows × 52 weeks = 4,680 weeks total.
About Life in Weeks
Inspired by Tim Urban's Your Life in Weeks essay (Wait But Why, 2014), this grid renders a 90-year life as 4,680 weeks — 52 weeks per row, 90 rows tall. Each week you have already lived is shaded; the rest are blank.
It's a stark visual: seven decades in a rectangle you can screenshot and post. Most people report that the filled portion is much larger than they imagined, and the empty portion much smaller.
We deliberately keep it to a single dependency-free page — enter your birthday, get the grid. No account, no upload, your date never leaves your device.
Frequently asked questions
A 90-year lifespan is roughly the *upper* end of the modern OECD life-expectancy distribution — a useful ceiling that gives a hopeful reader some empty squares to fill in. Real median life expectancy varies by country and cohort; 90 keeps the grid consistent across users.
No. The grid renders entirely in your browser. The OG card is generated on request from the ?dob query parameter — nothing is stored server-side.
Copy the URL — it contains your ?dob query string, so anyone opening it sees the same grid. The auto-generated OG image previews as a card on Twitter, WhatsApp, and LinkedIn.
The 90-year ceiling is fixed today. If you want the grid to end at your personally-projected age, treat any weeks beyond that as "hopeful spares" — most people find the visual worth more than the exact endpoint.
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