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Be Good-Argument-Driven, Not Data-Driven
EZRA KLEIN: One thing I like about analytics is that outside of the context of simply argue about the flaws of analytics, not having them allows you to bullshit yourself a lot. Allows you to bullshit yourself about whether or not people are reading you, what you’re really doing here, are you serving an audience. But then having them allows you... See more
C. Thi Nguyen • Are We Measuring Our Lives in All the Wrong Ways?
These metrics never really capture the underlying human emotion or behavior they are trying to measure. To make things more interesting, they almost always create secondary behavior which makes the metric go up but in a way the system designers didn’t anticipate or want.
Sriram Krishnan • Building something no one else can measure
strikingly lacking in frameworks for asking whether more data necessarily leads to better outcomes, despite recent experience repeatedly showing that it does not automatically result in greater wisdom.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
YOU CAN FREQUENTLY ASSESS the quality of a team by the quality of their metrics. Metrics are the lifeblood of a team lead because everything in your job is a negotiation, and metrics provide a rational foundation for discussion. If you don’t back up your statements with metrics, you’ll sound like Animal the Muppet. You also need metrics because you
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