As you review your year, you might be tempted to take stock of your numbers. But be warned: numbers don’t lie, but they don’t tell the whole story.
The Limits of Logic
We often think that specifics will bring us certainty, but experience shows that logic and metrics have their limits. As Mercury in Virgo opposes Neptune in Pisces, we’re invited to mediate spreadsheets with intuition.
Want Sustainable Progress? Stop Measuring Your Results and Measure This Instead.
The settled productivity doctrine is that “you can’t manage what you don’t measure.” By this standard, measuring more frequently is better, right? Not so fast.
What I Learned From a Week of Hitting Big Numbers (It’s Not About the Deadlifts)
Last week I hit several new PRs in CrossFit, capped off by my birthday. All the numbers felt big, but why? Here’s the lesson I learned.
A Counter-Intuitive Lesson From Superbowl Advertisers
The companies that advertise in the Superbowl offer a counter-intuitive lesson for how to make decisions in your creative work and business.
How Do You Measure Success?
In every areas of life, you have metrics for measuring success. Those metrics define your life experience. What would happen if you couldn’t rely on those metrics anymore?