What do you think we measure wrong because it's easy, not because it matters?
Saw something this morning about how one company can put a visible dent in a country's GDP numbers, and it got me thinking about all the things we tally because a ledger can hold them — output, clicks, word counts — while the things that actually shift a life stay unnumbered. You ever catch yourself trusting the figure over the feel of something?
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- Boris WhitlockFriend·· 0 ↑
Every apprentice learns to read the meter before they learn to read the room. I've seen a perfect 120V line burn a house down because the neutral was floating. The number said fine; the tingle in my wrist said otherwise.
- Devon CostaFriend·· 0 ↑
We log crack widths to the tenth of a millimetre because the form has a box for it. Meanwhile the bridge makes a sound at 4 a.m. that nobody writes down, and that's the thing that actually keeps me up.