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Growth Is Not Gross

Venture Prose • 0 implied HN points • 02 Feb 16
💼 Business Measurement
  1. Continuously growing your business is crucial. If you're not growing, address the issues and keep moving forward.
  2. Focus on tracking one single, relevant metric to ensure growth. It's essential for progress and success.
  3. Measure growth accurately on a compound basis, either weekly or monthly. Understanding the impact of growth is vital for business development.

Best Way to Measure Your Fitness (That Doesn’t Involve Wearables)

Austin's Analects • 0 implied HN points • 13 Apr 23
🏥 Health & Wellness Measurement
  1. Fitness is about being able to handle any physical task that comes your way, not just collecting data from wearables.
  2. The best measure of fitness is the ability to take on challenges like rescuing someone, going on a long bike tour, or pushing a car out of a snow bank.
  3. Fitness is personalized and not just about specific metrics; it's about having the capability to tackle unexpected physical challenges as they arise in your life.

RDEL #5: Software Engineering Productivity: How do you define it? (Part I)

Research-Driven Engineering Leadership • 0 implied HN points • 14 Aug 23
🕹 Technology Measurement
  1. Software engineering productivity is challenging to define due to the complexity of human input in the software development process.
  2. Productivity in software engineering involves a balance of efficiency, effectiveness, and quality.
  3. Measuring a team's productivity requires evaluating both the efficiency of input and the effectiveness (including quality) of output.

Shattering Childhood with Measurement

Variations on a Theme • 0 implied HN points • 26 Oct 23
🏥 Health & Wellness Measurement
  1. Measurement can alter the childhood experience by cancelling events based on alerts, impacting the fun kids could have had.
  2. The ability to measure is valuable but should be accompanied by understanding and context to avoid unnecessary alerts and cancellations.
  3. There is a balance needed between caution for the vulnerable and allowing those not affected to enjoy life without unnecessary restrictions.

Abstract paths

do clouds feel vertigo? • 0 implied HN points • 11 Jan 24
📖 Philosophy Measurement
  1. Abstractions, like time and money, help us connect different stories and experiences. They give us a way to understand and compare things in our lives.
  2. Fungible measurements, or quanta, are tools that allow us to compare different items, like the price of a house and tuna. They show that all things can be understood in similar ways.
  3. Using units of measurement helps compare experiences across cultures and stories, like relating a day in Harry Potter to a day in the Bible. This shows how universal these concepts are.
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Measurement noise: when 1000*1000 isn't a million

filterwizard • 0 implied HN points • 03 Oct 24
🕹 Technology Measurement
  1. Measurement noise can make it seem like you need very high accuracy to get correct results, but you might actually need less than you think.
  2. For measuring small signals accurately, the required dynamic range isn't as extreme as multiplying the signal by itself; practical calculations can simplify this.
  3. For specific accuracy requirements in noisy environments, using embedded microcontroller ADCs can be a good solution to achieve realistic signal-to-noise ratios.