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How to Measure Indirectly in a Hierarchy
When we start quantifying and measuring the world, we soon begin to change the world to fit the way we measure it. And i can't help but think about how people become obsessive, particularly creatives in the modern day world, about their social mediometrics. So they end up spending all this time optimizing for metrics, as opposed to creating something decent or something worth consuming. That's an epic sel pone, isn't it? I mean, the ist awful, because you're because none of the stuff matters. None of the stuff e and normally, this sort of er deformation of the character to fit the metric is something that gets imposed on us.
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