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Feb 27
1h 3m

How Metrics Make Us Miserable

The Ringer
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The modern world swims in numbers: work metrics, fitness metrics, health metrics, social media metrics. Sometimes the quantification of life can make things better. But very often, I think they force us to play the games we can measure rather than the games we value. The quantified life has become a modern religion: a system of values that takes us over and ... Show More
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