Something worth considering is the rise of high-granularity metrics. Marketing used to be about making powerful advertising that people thought helped make sales. Now, we can measure each individual campaign’s effectiveness. Same with website design, which used to be about usability but is now about maximizing clicks/​eyeball.
Our best measures of individual success used to be based on gut feelings, which a culture determines far more than clicks. And institutions run on cultures which encourage the type of behavior that helps the institution would win Darwinian contests against those which encouraged selfishness. But now, everyone is optimizing for individual success, and things they can measure, which tend to be short-term.
Something worth considering is the rise of high-granularity metrics. Marketing used to be about making powerful advertising that people thought helped make sales. Now, we can measure each individual campaign’s effectiveness. Same with website design, which used to be about usability but is now about maximizing clicks/​eyeball.
Our best measures of individual success used to be based on gut feelings, which a culture determines far more than clicks. And institutions run on cultures which encourage the type of behavior that helps the institution would win Darwinian contests against those which encouraged selfishness. But now, everyone is optimizing for individual success, and things they can measure, which tend to be short-term.