My Life in Weeks
Gina Trapani visualizes her life as a grid of weekly boxes, turning five decades of personal, professional, and historical milestones into a living timeline. The project emphasizes the finite scale of a life while leaving room for future chapters.
My Life in Weeks
Author: Gina Trapani | Published: Unknown | Generated: 2025-02-15 | Domain: weeks.ginatrapani.org
Tags: ‘#lifeinweeks’ ‘#personaldata’ ‘#datavisualization’ ‘#timeline’ ‘#digitalmemoir’
TLDR
Gina Trapani maps every week of her life as an interactive visual timeline, documenting milestones from her 1975 birth through projected future years. Adapted from the “Life in Weeks” concept, the project pairs personal events—family, career, health, travel, and relationships—with broader cultural and political moments, making time’s limited, cumulative nature tangible.
Her timeline records a career spanning Lifehacker, ThinkUp, Makerbase, Postlight, and NTT DATA, alongside family life with her spouse and daughter, and remains intentionally open for updates.
Key Takeaways
- Life represented in weeks: Each box corresponds to one week alive; selecting a box reveals what Trapani was doing and where she was at that point.
- A five-decade personal record: The timeline begins with her 1975 birth and includes school, college, marriage, the birth of her daughter, travel, career transitions, cancer, and other major life events.
- Technology and publishing career: Notable milestones include launching her first blog in 2001, joining Lifehacker in 2005, releasing
Todo.txtin 2006, founding ThinkUp in 2009, creating Makerbase in 2014, and starting Postlight in 2015. - Postlight outcome: Trapani became Postlight’s CEO in 2021; the company was sold in 2022, and she left NTT DATA in 2024.
- Finite but unfinished: The visualization marks age 84 in 2059 as life expectancy, yet extends to age 100 in 2075 with the aspirational note, “Hug T&E at the beach.”
Images & Media
None present in article.
Referenced Links
- Gina Trapani — Trapani’s personal website.
- Life in Weeks at Wait But Why — The explanatory inspiration for representing a human life as a grid of weeks.
- life-in-weeks source code — Code used to generate Trapani’s timeline.
- Buster Benson — Original implementation that inspired the adapted code.