Make Your Damn Bed

1890 || the spirit of the metrics

Sometimes our emotional world's and subjective experiences are what make us MORE reliable, not less.The focus on getting a high score actually distorts what we're scoring. The problem is not measureme...

31 Okt 11min

1889 || the tyranny of metrics

The focus on getting a high score actually distorts what we're scoring. The problem is not measurement, but a fixation on it"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." - Goodhar...

30 Okt 11min

1888 || when the measure becomes the target

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." - Goodhart’s LawWe're not cogs in a machine. We are so much more than that. When we put all the emphasis on metrics (the way we measu...

29 Okt 11min

1887 || bossware: is your company spying on you 24/7?

According to Ronan Farrow, over 70% of employers use some form of digital monitoring. They rank you against your coworkers and flag you if they deem you as unproductive. They track your locations even...

28 Okt 11min

1886 || avarice (the greed is limitless)

"Every product is a bait with which to seduce away the other’s very being, his money; every real and possible need is a weakness which will lead the fly to the glue-pot." - Karl Marx, Economic and Phi...

26 Okt 8min

another argument against billionaires

Today is a re-release of an old episode, I'll be back Monday with the follow up to the Karl Marx series. The inequality crisis is obscene and violent. You cannot be an ethical billionaire. It's time w...

25 Okt 9min