Choosing your metrics, KPIs, etc...

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

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

Jascha Sohl-Dickstein sohl-dickstein.github.io

The concept of efficiency — how much one can accomplish per unit of time (or per dollar, etc.) — requires a quantitative numerator as well as a denominator. It requires a metric. Therefore, it tells us nothing about results we cannot quantify or measure. When we gear our society around efficiency, we produce more and more of the measurable, while... See more

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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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Overpowered Metrics Eat Underspecified Goals

ribbonfarm.com

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Your Necessary First Step to Creating Powerful UX Metrics

Jared M. Spool articles.uie.com

Adam Zeiner

quality has no discernable metric

-miter

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Algorithmic Blindspots - David Perell

David Perell perell.com

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Building something no one else can measure

sriramk.com

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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.

This single... See more

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