I came across this paper via Ezra Klein’s NYT piece about Elon Musk and Twitter. It reads like a blend of Finite and Infinite Games… Read More »C. Thi Nguyen on Twitter, Gamification and Thin Metrics
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Business, like any other institution, has important results that are incapable of being measured. Any experienced executive will know companies or industries that are bound… Read More »Peter Drucker on metrics as misdirection
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