Stringing together recent posts on conscious thought, developing metrics, measuring value and rewarding humanity; nothing new, but worth the review.

Staring Down The Barrel of Humanity, London, England

Stringing together recent posts and comments…

• A kickstart to a Thursday:

  “I think you have much to offer the world, but so far have done nothing of real value with your life. So what’s your motivation and/or purpose in gathering such a large audience?”

  Gathering an audience isn’t my goal. Being undeniably great is my goal. Helping others be undeniably great is my purpose. There’s value in that.

• But how do we really know if we’re great? Valuing one’s life is subjective. Traditional objective metrics are crude at best; what if the metrics we have and use simply aren’t good enough?

  How can we measure the full impact of our lives? How can we learn, refine and improve if we don’t have the data to measure our holistic impact?

• Some of the data exists, albeit lost in the data explosion of the web, unstructured, too expensive to search, too difficult to understand.

  Some of the data exists, but isn’t available (yet). But it’s coming.

  But sadly, even if the data exists, we are likely missing the signals, using the wrong metrics and benchmarks, neglecting hidden costs, rewarding “thin value” instead of “thick value”.

• How do we move forward?

  It starts by making conscious decisions.

  By creating strategies instead of tactics.

  By demanding and rewarding nuanced discourse.

  By incenting relevance and context.

  By educating and illuminating instead of obscuring.

  By scaling “human cycles”.

  By embedding humanity into capitalism.

  By focusing on processes instead of outcomes, by creating rather than extracting, by expanding rather than allocating.

  By valuing the full costs and benefits of our decisions, by focusing on value instead of profit.

  It won’t be easy, but the right path rarely is.

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Just trying to connect A to B: thoughts to thoughts, thoughts to people, people to people.