You Have to Feel It

For as much as the author may get roasted for stating the obvious, I've often seen this "measure everything" mindset, coming from those you'd think should know better than that.

I've even seen this stupidity in myself sometimes. In a way it's funny how you can get so lost on the numbers that you forget about the thing.

Measuring and feeling are not mutually exclusive.

This is just the frame that the author is trying to prop up in order to sell us their shallow, meaningless piece.

I wouldn’t normally even comment something like this about someone’s article, but I see this pattern a lot in “influencer” content that people sometimes share with me and I am worried that if we don’t point it out, we will lose our ability to spot nonsense like this and side step our critical thinking.

The “trick” is contrasting or relating something completely irrelevant to some sort of nonsensical or obvious “thought piece”.

I am sure this is some sort of named fallacy and someone else can explain it a lot more eloquently, but this is my attempt.

We have a recent hire who comes from a background where a) the user base was much larger and b) metrics were the best way to understand outcomes.

Our company is smaller and earlier than that. I enjoy the focus on metrics, it's a good push for us, but sometimes you just have to do the obviously good thing for users without trying to build a metrics framework around it.