The hourglass
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The two chambers meet at the present moment. The sand sits wherever the clock puts it.
Deep focus
Where is your deep focus going?
Uninterrupted focus in a distracted world. Finite starts a stretch of attention; when it ends, you name where it went — work, friendship, family, fitness, home or meditation. Over days, weeks and months you can see where your life is going. You can't time a life, so Finite times only the sessions you chose to protect. The measuring-life models are still here, under Models, for when you're curious.
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What Finite shows you
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Lifetime, visualized.
How Finite works
Four steps, and one honest limit.
Finite frames one stretch of attention at a time and keeps a calm record of where it went. It does not grade you, and it keeps no streaks.
The limit, said out loud
A timer frames a session; it never measures a life. Finite keeps no streaks, goals or scores, and the Models that describe a lifespan use population figures that are never a prediction about you.
Visualization gallery
Three ways to make scale visible.
These are non-personal demonstrations. They show the visual grammar of Finite without using anyone's information or implying an individual outcome.
Every week
One cell represents one week. Purple marks elapsed time, cyan marks the weeks up to the population median, and outlined cells hold the spread between the quartiles.
The timeline
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Time lived, time to the median and the middle half of the population each have their own fill. The present is the brightest mark, never an alarm.
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Before you begin
What Finite asks, and why.
Only your date of birth is needed to draw your own view; everything else is optional. What you enter is saved to your private account and this device, and you can change it at any time.
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Finite will never name a date.
Estimates come from population data. Individual outcomes vary widely, and no figure shown here applies to you with certainty. Results change when the model, the data, or your inputs change.
Step 1 of 2 · Personal baseline
Where you are starting from.
Only your date of birth is needed. Anything else you would rather not answer can be left as it is.
Used to place you on the timeline and to count weeks. Saved privately to your account and this device.
Height and weight
Height
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Finite stores one measurement and shows it in the units you choose. Changing units does not change the measurement. Either field may be left empty — Finite records that as unanswered, not as zero, and derives no health classification from height or weight.
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Step 2 of 2 · Lifestyle
A few descriptions of how you live.
These are descriptions of what you entered — not judgements about you. Every one of them may be left unanswered.
Review
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left unanswered
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not supported by the model
Skipping is fine. The life-table figures do not change with these answers; they shape what Health influences shows you.
Separately from the model, you can read what the evidence actually says about each of these — with sources, and with what the research cannot show.
Reading the published life table at your age
Drawing your view.
Life overview
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Sample view. These figures use a sample birth date ({{ sampleDobLong }}), not yours. Enter your date of birth to see your own.
Time lived
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Age in years · shared ruler
Both rows are read from the same published life table. The band spans the middle half of the population — where a quarter and three quarters had died. The line is the median. None of it is a statement about one person.
Time aperture
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Life visualization
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The material moves because time moved. Its position is recomputed from the current timestamp, never accumulated frame by frame — closing Finite and returning later shows the correct position.
Described in words
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Described in words
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BirthEstimated range
Now
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Drag the field to move through the years
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Sample view. These figures use a sample birth date ({{ sampleDobLong }}), not yours. Enter your date of birth to see your own.
By age
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The Atlas · Health — modifiable influences
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What the evidence actually says.
Population-level science, translated into perspective rather than individual destiny. Nothing here is a prediction about you, nothing is added together into a score, and nothing is a diagnosis.
Every sentence below comes with its sources. Nothing on this page is written on the fly.
The evidence registry did not load, so there is nothing Finite is permitted to say here. No substitute text has been put in its place.
What this page will not do
It will not tell you how long you have left, turn any of these figures into a span of time added to or taken from a life, total them into a single number, or read something you typed as a diagnosis. Those are not settings that have been switched off — the functions that would do them return an explanation instead of an answer.
An influence you have not answered stays blank. It is never assumed to be fine.
Methodology and data
What shapes a life.
Choose a section, then open a topic.
Population findings give context. They do not predict your lifespan, and your answers do not change the life-table figures.
Health influences.
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Choose a topic to read its findings, sources and limits.
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Findings, as approved
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Why this is not proof
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How the figures work.
What these figures are
Every lifespan figure in Finite is read from one published life table. It describes a population in a particular country in a particular year. Finite does not diagnose, does not score you, and does not tell anyone when they will die.
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The table, in full.
Source document · opens at the publisher
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All {{ lifeTableCount }} rows of it. l(x) is how many of 100,000 born alive were still alive at that age; e(x) is how many further years that group lived on average. The highlighted row is the one Finite is reading. Nothing here is Finite's — it is the source document, transcribed and checked.
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Every source, listed.
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Privacy
Private, and quiet about it.
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The full policy — what is stored, who can see it, and how to delete it — is at finite.fareedtareen.com/privacy.html, and the terms of use at finite.fareedtareen.com/terms.html. Both pages need no JavaScript, so they stay readable to anything that cannot run this app.
Reflections
Optional, private, unmeasured.
Nothing here is counted, ranked or reminded about. Finite is fully useful if this page stays empty.
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Profile and settings
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Sign in
An account carries the information you choose between your devices. Finite works completely without one, and nothing leaves this device until you sign in.
Install Finite
Opens in its own window, like an app. It needs a connection to confirm your access.
Models
FINITE — Measuring Life
The measuring-life models: your own life against a published population, the scale of things, money, health, and thirty perspectives. Things you find while you are here.
Add your date of birth to see your own timeline. Add it
Finite has expanded
Your original life timeline is still here — it now lives inside Time. Finite can now explore other dimensions of life: Scale, Money and Health. Your existing information has not changed.
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New perspectives
More ways to measure life.
Thirty perspectives on time, space, money, attention, relationships and the material world. Change the assumptions, explore the measurements, and carry a thought into your reflections.
The Atlas · Scale
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You are here
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Against you
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Model note
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The Atlas · Money · A dollar to a trillion
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Choose an amount, or take the next step: ten times as much.
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As a stack of $100 bills
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Count $1 every second
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One dollar per second, continuously, with no breaks.
In full
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The same amount, with every zero written out.
One of these equals
1 billion = 1,000 × 1 million
Each cube is one million dollars. The whole field is one billion. A trillion is a thousand of these fields.
Stock
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Flow
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Why it matters
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Place a number of your own on the ladder
Not saved · stays on this page
Optional. It is never written to this device, never synced, and is gone when you leave the page.
Enter an amount above zero.
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Compare any two amounts · advanced ruler
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{{ money.assumption }} Source ↗ · This page shows magnitude, not advice, and carries no global statistics: those appear only once Finite ships a sourced, dated dataset for them.