Paul Graham
Life is Short
Life is short, as everyone knows. When I was a kid I used to wonder about this. Is life actually short, or are we really complaining about its finiteness?
Why we picked it
By separating life's brevity from its finiteness, it sharpens a familiar cliché into a more useful question about attention.
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