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Tl;dr if you don't know what your goals are, you won't achieve them. Shocking! Though in half his examples (education, politics, baseball), the complaint actua
by yummyfajitas 10y ago
Tl;dr if you don't know what your goals are, you won't achieve them. Shocking!
Though in half his examples (education, politics, baseball), the complaint actually seems to be "other people don't share my goals".
What this has to do with measurement, I have no idea. Would this problem occur less if we non-quantitatively tried to achieve the wrong goal?
- xivzgrev 10y agothe complaint actually seems to be "other people don't share my goals I guess. But i think what he is driving at is, in data driven world, we can lose sight of bigger picture ie in quest for test scores we can unreasonably stress kids out, in quest for profits we can shit on employees and the environment, etc. Just taking the last point, people generally like parks and nature. What person would say "oh yes id love to pollute my closest river?" but then suppose you ran a factory on a river, and it would cost your company 90% of profits to dispose of your factory's waste in an environmentally sound way, and you are measured on how much profits you bring in. Or you can dump in the river for free. Would you choose to dump your waste into the river? I think most people would.
- prawn 10y agoI'd like to think that most people wouldn't. I'd rather run no business at all.