What are you optimizing for?

Don't the let your goals be derailed by playing someone else's game.

🧵 reacting to great analysis from @GergelyOrosz and @rhein_wein

https://twitter.com/Pragmatic_Eng/status/1544372669763784704

Productivity porn pervades hustle culture in tech.

I started working out this spring, and I wanted to up my game a little bit, so I started looking at how others are doing it. I found many choices for apps, tools, gear, etc:

Digging in... they were all gamified!

Most sport and health metrics have concrete use cases (just like DORA).

But buying into any gamified system, is literally buying into a revenue model: Subscriptions, brand loyalty, adjacent gear, etc, and more of your money and attention...

Valid != Valuable.

I am on a different path, consciously optimizing to keep myself committed.

Using simple metrics that keep energy up, and return, week after week.

• time spent

• type of activity

• overall feeling
  

Focus on the metrics that keep you and your team motivated.