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Speaking of tech, this week I wrote about gamification, Taylorism, Apple Watch (again), Duolingo, and how all the data we collect and that gets collected about us loses sight of what's most important: The human being. You.

www.leahreich.com/ungamify-you...
Do you remember about a decade ago, when empathy was a big industry buzzword? Everyone was so eager to show how empathetic they were that even companies were trying to prove it. The height of absurdity was when the Harvard Business Review published an article entitled – I wish I were joking – Corporate Empathy is Not an Oxymoron, which argued that empathy can and should be measured. That we should have an empathy metric to better measure how empathetic companies can be. I wrote a whole thing about how angry this made me, and isn't it fun, I'm still angry. But now I'm angrier, and for even bigger reasons. It's like every aspect of our lives have been Taylorized. Everything we do and feel needs to be measured, weighed, compared, increased, reduced, improved, and all in the service of...who? Or what? The big data that help these companies drive up their stock prices, and the little data that help us feel like we have some measure of control in lives that are ever more at the mercy of the various technologies we're beholden to?
March 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM