Microlife: The unit of life
![Microlife: 30 mins of TV soap, 2 cigarettes, 7 units of alcohol](https://images.prismic.io/sketchplanations/f1f48618-26f8-43e3-a248-672b12e9d156_131644777480.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&w=3840&q=50)
A microlife is thirty minutes of your life expectancy. You can use it up by chilling for 30 minutes or you could start to speed through them by smoking a few cigarettes or having a few drinks.
A simple way to bring difficult-to-grasp long-term, slow-burn risks into a unit that can motivate you and a handy way to compare risks.
Even better, you gain a microlife with 2-3 cups of coffee. Win!
Also see, micromort, the unit of death
Interesting? See Microlives: A lesson in risk taking, by Cambridge University Professor of risk David Spiegelhalter. Or see his 15 min TED talk: Motorbikes, Terrorism, Heart Attacks, Sausages: Professor David Spiegelhalter at TEDxOxbridge, or the full paper.
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