Choosing your metrics, KPIs, etc...

how to measure what matters + philosophical musings on whether the important things can be measured

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Human pain is too abstract to be represented in spreadsheets.

Craig Mod • Offscreen Magazine Interview

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Algorithmic Blindspots - David Perell

David Perell perell.com

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The Tyranny of Numbers - By Thomas J Bevan - The Commonplace

Thomas J Bevan thomasjbevan.substack.com

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Metrics, Incrementalism, and Local Maxima

Andrew Kortina kortina.nyc

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Measuring what matters

Rob Hardy ungated.media

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How did people respond? Did I strike an emotional nerve? This goes beyond easy, legible metrics like pageviews or social media likes, or even comments, which are at best hazy approximations of external resonance. It’s about looking for signals that something genuinely MATTERED to one or more humans, and elicited a response that’s out of proportion with the average digital interaction. Lots of likes is an okay-ish signal. Lots of comments is a clearer signal. A small handful of comments or private replies from people saying they’ve never felt so seen or understood by a piece of writing – that’s the kind of thing I’m trying to discern and quantify here.

There is a common issue of over-optimizing the metrics in business, which can damage the whole system. Doing the wrong thing efficiently is actually worse than doing the right thing badly. – Rory Sutherland

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In my six years at Google, I got to observe this force up close, relentlessly killing features users loved and eroding the last vestiges of creativity and agency from our products. I know this force well, and I hate it, but I do not yet know how to fight it. I call this force the Tyranny of the Marginal User .

Simply put, companies building apps... See more

Ivan Vendrov • The Tyranny of the Marginal User

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Too Much Efficiency Makes Everything Worse: Overfitting and the Strong Version of Goodhart's Law

Jascha Sohl-Dickstein sohl-dickstein.github.io

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