First sentence: "The dashboard is the potent symbol of our age" and I'm already drooling (or slavering). GO ON
"The threat is that we will let ourselves be mindlessly bound by the output of our analyses even when we have reasonable grounds for suspecting that something is amiss."
"Metrics fixation leads to a diversion of resources away from frontline producers toward managers, administrators, and those who gather and manipulate data."
👏🌷🙏🌈🙌
There is an excerpt of a paper I am now dying to read, on professional judgment. It concludes...
Colonize our understandings of merit. Holy fuckola.
Once you confuse the dashboard with reality, you lose the game.
Anyway. Go read the article, it's killer, and has a rad list of further reading in the footnotes! forbes.com/sites/davidsha…