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How to Measure the World 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 normally this sort of am thenew deformation of the character to fit the metric is something that gets imposed on us. It happens in organizations and hierarchies where there are targets. Numbers tend to be at their mostis functional when they're being used by one person to try to control the actions of another person. The moment you put any any pressure to bear on the metric, it will immediately buckle.
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