This is Not Advice: Metrics, Incentives, and the Seduction of Clarity
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English - August 14, 2023 15:53 - 9 minutes - 8.65 MB - ★★★★★ - 171 ratingsEntrepreneurship Business Careers capitalism economics philosophy small business entrepreneurship personal growth culture feminism Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This is the 8th edition of This is Not Advice, my "not-advice" column for premium subscribers of What Works. Today, I'm talking about our over-reliance on metrics and how easily we're seduced by reductive data. When does a metric turn into an incentive for bad behavior? And why are we so happy to accept the feeling of clarity and certainty without actually understanding what's going on?
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