How many times you'll see the people you love — at the rate you're currently doing it. This is a death clock with a deadline you can change. The deadline is how often you call.
Step 1 · Add the people
Who matters?
Add up to five people you love. Their current age. How often you see them now, in a typical year. Be honest about the cadence — the math only works if it's real.
Person
Their age
Times / year
Reasonable max age:Adjust if you'd like a different planning horizon. 85 is a U.S. life-expectancy round number.
Total visits remaining across the people you added.
Ask Morrison who paid for this rate.
Not a verdict. A reading. The math you just calculated has a name attached to each number. Morrison reads the one you'd most regret.
reading…
Toni Morrison · reads the math
What would doubling look like?
Pick one person above. Look at the gold dots. Imagine doubling that line. That's the conversation you should have this month.
The math doesn't change. The cadence can.
Where the math comes from. Tim Urban's "The Tail End" (Wait But Why, 2015) ran this calculation for the writer's own parents and concluded he'd already spent ~93% of the in-person time he'd ever have with them. The math here is the same shape, scoped to anyone you choose, with the cadence you actually have. The number is not a verdict. It's a budget.