moneyball
on hyper-optimisation - what we gain and what we lose from it
moneyball
The data informs and influences us, but we choose based on the totality of our experience
learning to use data properly
It's scary to admit that you can't control the future; it's a lot easier to distract yourself by trying to optimize every decision, no matter how insignificant.
Adam Mastroianni • So You Wanna De-Bog Yourself
Have fun — There’s a version of this work that’s hyper-analytical where we try to Moneyball our way to success. There’s another version where we’re living it, enjoying it, and having fun with it. Our best work comes when we’re having fun and enjoying what we’re doing, not when we’re overly analytical. Analytical thinking creates fear and... See more
Yancey Strickler • When Your Purpose Is 1-of-1
“Grunt work” can be central to building community, but only if you do it yourself.
archive.ph
You can make a thing so perfect that it’s ruined.
Derek Thompson • What Moneyball-for-Everything Has Done to American Culture
Believing that everything will be better if only we gather more information commits us to endless searching and casting about, to one more swipe of the screen in the hope that the elusive bit of data, which will make everything clear, will suddenly present itself. From one angle, this is just another symptom of reducing our experience of the world... See more
L. M. Sacasas • The Answer Is Not More Information
The more we reduce our experiences—transcendent, fraught, delightful, frightening, whatever they may be—to a series of stark data points and engineered touch points, the more we chase the magic out of them.
Tim Leberecht • The Business Romantic
When everything is measured in terms of engagement, content will be optimized for addictiveness. Not entertainment or artistic merit. Not intellectual substance or creativity. Pure, plain addictiveness.
Mark Manson • Are you not entertained?
The data uncanny valley: how overoptimisation leads us to the loss of more human, more beautiful emotional things.