Karsten Schmidt<p>"Eventually, I stopped responding to my body. I was responding instead to a dashboard." — <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Daojoan</span></a></span> </p><p>This is a great point and very much translates to so many other parts of life/work where people stop listening to their "body" (or to their org/product/offering), outsourcing/numbing/dumbing down their decision making based on dashboards of collected metrics and then changing their behaviors on auto-pilot to improve said metrics — without ever asking themselves if the data collected actually represents answers to the right (or even important) questions...</p><p>Metrics always invite comparison & competition — on a global scale — often without considering our own subjective contexts/needs/limits/aims...</p><p>Does the number of copilot prompts per day on a CTO dashboard indicate a highly productive developer or does a big fat zero merely show a different approach to problem solving?</p><p>Does the lack of constant updates to a FLOSS project mean it's become neglected/unusable or does it simply indicate it reached a level of stability?</p><p>Likewise, does my product/app need constant UI changes/updates to "streamline" user experience (often without even consulting users) based on some "goal" metrics?</p><p>Am I seen as an unproductive FLOSS developer if my public commit log doesn't show daily updates? Do gaps indicate laziness, illness, deep thinking or work on other projects? Like gaps in a CV, will these gaps of activity data hinder future employment chances or would I even want to work with orgs who select on this criteria?</p><p>Is a hike only good/better because it exceeds X kilometers or Y elevation meters? How does one measure the stunning views or the quality of the company which shared that experience?</p><p><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/why-i-gave-up-my-smartwatch/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">joanwestenberg.com/why-i-gave-</span><span class="invisible">up-my-smartwatch/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Dashboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dashboard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/QuantifiedSelf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuantifiedSelf</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/DataViz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataViz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Behavior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Behavior</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/DecisionMaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DecisionMaking</span></a></p>