Metric System Dept.

Anil Dash on Twitter:

One of the biggest dangers in tech is if you focus just on metrics, that might be all you get.

It isn't just tech where that risk rears its ever-so-sleek head, of course, although that's where I hear about the most ostensibly practical majority of it. "Data-driven" this and "test-driven" that; after a while, it ceases to sound like good practice or common sense, and becomes just another item on the Mindless Buzzword Roster. Not because of what it is, but how it's appro...