Similarly when layoffs hit and morale gets low, guess what caliber of employee i...

gopher_space · 2026-03-20T16:30:48 1774024248

Everyone knows morale is a dump stat... if you don't track consequences.

marcosdumay · 2026-03-20T16:36:07 1774024567

Well, you can't measure it, so it can't matter.

gopher_space · 2026-03-22T20:04:09 1774209849

Interesting to think about how often I'm fighting both sides of that coin.

anonymars · 2026-03-22T22:40:44 1774219244

With time, I've come to think the trouble is--as usual--there's no singular right answer, only trade-offs

Sabermetrics (Moneyball) captivated us with the idea that "gut feelings" and "stories" were inferior to raw hard data, but that same notion could also accurately be called "the McNamara fallacy"