nothing is objective
“To fit in with the change of events, words, too, had to change their usual meanings. What used to be described as a thoughtless act of aggression was now regarded as the courage one would expect to find in a party member. To think of the future and wait was merely another way of saying one was a coward; any idea of moderation was just an attempt... See more
L. M. Sacasassubstack.comthe degree to which attention discourse is invested in a clear “subject” looking at an “object”: a binary relation that many of those other methods have challenged.
Dirt • Dirt: Disordered Attention
It teaches them that data is created, not found; and that creating it well demands humanity, rather than objectivity
Melanie Feinberg • The Myth of Objective Data
It takes a deeply personal, in the bone, in the blood, in the spine recognition of the variables in motion. An abstracted version, an impersonal version, or seemingly "objective" or professional version will pop into modeling and mapping, and lose the necessary tangibility of the details – thus losing access to the realms of possibility to meet
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Data is always an abstraction of reality based on underlying assumptions as to how to categorize the unstructured phenomena of the real world.
Clayton M. Christensen • Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
good numbers don't mean good impact. We can hit every target and still harm the system we operate in.