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"Eventually, I stopped responding to my body. I was responding instead to a dashboard." — @Daojoan

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...

Metrics always invite comparison & competition — on a global scale — often without considering our own subjective contexts/needs/limits/aims...

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?

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?

Likewise, does my product/app need constant UI changes/updates to "streamline" user experience (often without even consulting users) based on some "goal" metrics?

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?

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?

joanwestenberg.com/why-i-gave-

Westenberg. · Why I Gave Up My SmartwatchSomewhere between the first time I tapped my wrist to skip a song and the three hundredth time I anxiously checked my resting heart rate, I started to hate my Apple Watch. The promise of the smartwatch was elegance, convenience, optimization. What I got was constant data drip, subtle panic,

🇬🇷 **Greece is turning its back on coal and replacing it with solar and wind**

Hannah Ritchie & Pablo Rosado

“_The chart shows that just over a decade ago, almost half of the country’s power came from coal. This has now fallen to 6%._

_Solar and wind have replaced it; their share has tripled in the last decade; when combined, they’ve become the largest source._”

🔗 ourworldindata.org/data-insigh.

🇬🇧 🖋️ **What is the state of Britain’s handwriting?**

"_Just one in six Britons (17%) update a personal journal or diary by hand at least a few times a month, while only 7% of the public are handwriting letters that regularly._"

🔗 yougov.co.uk/society/articles/.

yougov.co.ukWhat is the state of Britain’s handwriting? | YouGovJoined-up handwriting is less common among younger Britons