Choosing your metrics, KPIs, etc...

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

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Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

Charles Eisenstein • 5 highlights

amazon.com

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alex

there’s simply no way around the fact that we’re pretty fed up with a certain philosophical framework in Silicon Valley. It has many names: the growth mindset. OKRs. KPIs. Even Minimalism — the predominant aesthetic of our era. But at its core, it all comes down to one thing: the relentless optimization of everything in our world.

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The Browser Company • Optimizing For Feelings

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It’s wild that some mid level PM is making design tweaks for “retention” and ends up completely tearing the entire fabric of our society into a downward spiral of gamified virtual hot people musical chairs. “What if we added a bursting emoji heart?!” = Birthrates fall to zero

John Fio x.com

andrea

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 .

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Ivan Vendrov • The Tyranny of the Marginal User

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Kiwi SaaS Metrics That Matter 2023^LLJ r2.2.pdf

slideshare.net

Jilber Najem

The Nag Metric

Julie Zhuo lg.substack.com

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Your Necessary First Step to Creating Powerful UX Metrics

Jared Spool articles.uie.com

Adam Zeiner

Metrics, Incrementalism, and Local Maxima

Andrew Kortina kortina.nyc

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