Metrics That Matter: What Do You Measure & Why Is It Important?

Get prepared for some numbers people, we're diving deep into the analytical, engineering minds of the Mere Mortals.

In Episode #246 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: the reasoning behind talking about metrics & my general philosophy, realisations that it's possible to go overboard, sleep/financial/fitness/random data that we collect and analyse, qualitative metrics that are harder to measure, what happens when the process goes wrong, an example of unique podcasting metrics and a CTA to check out our Discord.

As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!

Timeline:
(0:00) - Why I chose this topic
(2:05) - What doesn't get measured, doesn't get managed
(3:39) - Measuring for optimality = too granular
(12:24) - Sleep metrics
(15:33) - Financial metrics
(23:21) - Fitness metrics
(29:30) - Random metrics
(33:14) - Qualitative metrics
(42:22) - An error: tracking things that don't matter
(47:42) - Podcasting metrics & learnings
(51:27) - Check out the discord


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