... Shift your focus away from routine tasks, effort, and just doing the work, toward learning, adapting, and developing real human skills:
building genuine connections, imagination, creativity, and judgment.
action -> feedback -> adjustment -> more action
versus
anxiety about action -> tracking -> temporary feeling of control -> little meaningful action
sometimes people track metrics not because the metrics help them improve, but because tracking gives them the feeling of productivity while avoiding the uncomfortable work that actually moves them forward.
When God created us, he didnโt mean for us to start doing accounting, investment banking, adjusting EBITDA, GAAP and IFRS etc. But through our sins, these woes have befallen us.
thereโs something beautiful about contributing, even in a small way, to systems that improve peopleโs lives.
And the reverse is also true:
Thereโs something deeply unsettling about contributing, even in a small way, to systems that damage or degrade peopleโs lives.