100 Things I’ll Miss When I’m Dead

Mikael Colville-Andersen
5 min readNov 29, 2020
The “100 Things I’ll Miss When I’m Dead” podcast is out now — wherever you get your podcasts or right here

How dreadfully dull measuring a life in years. We should instead calculate our age by our number of smiles, total decibels of laughter, the volume of tears, pages read in books, the collective light intensity of sunsets and sunrises witnessed, times our hearts were broken and fixed, our kisses, orgasms, hangovers, awe-inspiring views.

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Mikael Colville-Andersen

Urban designer, author and host of the global documentary series about urbanism, The Life-Sized City. Impatient Idealist.