The Unmistakable Creative Podcast cover image

Tim Harford | The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

00:00

The Problem With Social Media Metrics

When we start quantifying and measuring the world, we soon begin to change the world to fit the way we measure it. Numbers tend to be at their most dysfunctional when they're being used by one person to try to control the actions of another person. The moment you put any pressure to bear on the metric, it will immediately buckle. And this is a fact about the world that has been known as Campbell's law.

Transcript
Play full episode

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!
App store bannerPlay store banner
Get the app