You Really Need To Read This Essay On The Fixation Of Numerically Objectified Success

It's important because it really gets to the meat of why, from a philosophical point of view, especially as it relates to one's sense of cosmological order, that it really isn't the case that life is all about the numbers, and the math that lies behind them.

Which is not to say that the numbers aren't important, only that they are not the only important thing to a well lived life; and most particularly to a life that would seek to have balance shape a good portion of its overall strategy. And also because this is how we can best accommodate each other in social systems that have both practical meaning, but also meaning that relies on the faith in our fundamental position in how meaning gets created in the first place; because we are fundamental to the expression of energy.

It should also not surprise us that it is our outdated economic system that moves so forcefully to emphasize this very sort of unbalanced, numerical abstraction, because that is really all it cares about. How could it be otherwise when it is the abstract process of making profit that rules that old system, and the only thing that matters at the "bottom line."

It seems to me that, in order to move away from the tyranny of  too much metric thinking, one would really need to give serious consideration to getting rid of an operating system that puts too much emphasis on it. But that's just me I guess. What do you think?

Against metrics: how measuring performance by numbers backfires