Choosing your metrics, KPIs, etc...
how to measure what matters + philosophical musings on whether the important things can be measured
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Choosing your metrics, KPIs, etc...
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
There are things that can be measured. There are things that are worth measuring. But what can be measured is not always what is worth measuring; what gets measured may have no relationship to what we really want to know. The costs of measuring may be greater than the benefits. The things that get measured may draw effort away from the things we re... See more
The Tyranny of Metrics Quotes by Jerry Z. Muller
Overpowered Metrics Eat Underspecified Goals
ribbonfarm.com
quality has no discernable metric
-miter
From Andy Barnes:
The idea that all of the world should be measured in dollars to stockholders is actually a relatively new idea. It used to be that we thought that businesses had their purpose. Your purpose was to be making newspapers or fountain pens or whatever. And now we act as though the only purpose of a business was to enrich the people ... See more