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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quality has no discernable metric

-miter

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Finding the right metric

Ted Merz, who used to be the Global Head of News Product at Bloomberg, has an insightful article about how the company's founder (Mike Bloomberg) uses metrics as a management tool. One metric that is prominently displayed around the office on TV screens is the number of Bloomberg terminals sold year-to-date.

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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... See more

The Tyranny of Metrics Quotes by Jerry Z. Muller

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Metrics, Incrementalism, and Local Maxima

Andrew Kortina kortina.nyc

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

Charles Eisenstein • 5 highlights

amazon.com

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Building something no one else can measure

sriramk.com

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We don’t track time on site on Sublime. We also don’t track passive consumption. We only track people actively building and curating their library (which itself is not a perfect metric - because we don’t want to incentivize collecting. we want to incentivize creating with your knowledge) but is better than time on platform.

If a platform enables

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