I made baseball cards for us as kids! They were just hand-drawn, but I kept tally of averages and stuff like that, at least for the handful of games we managed to play.
Tx for reading Jennifer! I was talking to one of my old friends from MSFT about how the system runs on perpetual losers and an annual cycle of disruption. My team was strong, yet every year I had to pick losers. I wouldn’t, so every year it was a fight.
Just read a book you might like: “The Score” by C. Thi Nguyen. Best thing I’ve read in years and directly relevant here.
Just read the synopsis - sounds very much inline with this but am I done playing those games?
In Nguyen’s eyes, it’s games all the way down. I found the book very compelling despite my complete disaffection with conventional metrics
I can see that. I’ll checkitout. Right now I’m reading pure escapist SciFi and it’s pretty good.
Well, this definitely isn’t SciFi but it’s not your typical nonfiction either, much more playful
I wrote a post about this "negotiation" process. We had manager's training where we had to duke it out with the other managers about our "employees."
Our team failed completely. They got absorbed into finding some "objective" formula to rank people. There is no such thing, of course.
Yeah I think you nailed it — objective on the outside, subjective on the inside.
I made baseball cards for us as kids! They were just hand-drawn, but I kept tally of averages and stuff like that, at least for the handful of games we managed to play.
I was playing the mafia game back then.
You knew you were going to be The Don.
I loved this post, so good! And yeah, calibration time is something else, that’s for sure.
Tx for reading Jennifer! I was talking to one of my old friends from MSFT about how the system runs on perpetual losers and an annual cycle of disruption. My team was strong, yet every year I had to pick losers. I wouldn’t, so every year it was a fight.