Metrics That Matter: What Do You Measure & Why Is It Important?

Get prepared for some numbers people, we're diving deep into the analytical, engineering minds of the Mere Mortals.In Episode #246 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: the reasoning behind talking about metrics & my general philosophy, realisations that it's possible to go overboard, sleep/financial/fitness/random data that we collect and analyse, qualitative metrics that are harder to measure, what happens when the process goes wrong, an example of unique podcasting metrics and a CTA to check out our Discord.As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!Timeline:(0:00) - Why I chose this topic(2:05) - What doesn't get measured, doesn't get managed(3:39) - Measuring for optimality = too granular(12:24) - Sleep metrics(15:33) - Financial metrics(23:21) - Fitness metrics(29:30) - Random metrics(33:14) - Qualitative metrics(42:22) - An error: tracking things that don't matter(47:42) - Podcasting metrics & learnings(51:27) - Check out the discordConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show