Numeric | Gazer

Don't leave the dashboard open. Don't put the app on your home screen. Decide that you will look at the numbers for 15 minutes, once a day, or once a week. Outside of that window, the numbers do not exist. You are a ghost to them. If the business is going to burn down, it will do so without your gaze.

We are chasing a dopamine hit that never arrives. The pleasure of a "good number" lasts approximately 0.3 seconds before the brain asks, "Yes, but can you do that again tomorrow?" How do we stop gazing without becoming Luddites? How do we use the ruler without becoming the ruler? numeric gazer

I have three practices for the recovering Numeric Gazer. Don't leave the dashboard open

Goodhart’s Law states: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." Outside of that window, the numbers do not exist

You will ask for a hand to hold. You will ask for a memory of a laugh. You will ask for the smell of rain.