I need some new queer/Pride pins and patches for my bags. Anyone got a favorite queer seller of such.....aqueertrement?

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Are you in the UK and opposed to providing ID to use social media in the coming weeks?

There’s an official parliament petition to repeal the Online Safety Act, and it’s already at 13,000 signatures and growing: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903

(Not UK? Please spread the word!)

When I suggest that people will game whatever metrics we put in place, I'm often met with shocked indignation. We would never game the numbers! And yet we do.

I took my car in for service this morning and I was asked if it was ok that they split the bill across two transactions. "You're being measured on number of cars through?" I asked. The answer was obviously yes, and this way I counted as two cars.

It's not just a matter that the numbers are now wrong, we have now introduced waste into the system. There were two credit card transactions rather than one. Two receipts instead of one. There was additional time for the workers to explain why they wanted to do it this way. Overall, this was complete waste, but because they felt they were being judged on the count of cars through, it was justified.

If people think that they'll be judged based on measurements then they'll game those. The more judgement, the more the numbers will be inaccurate, and the more waste will be introduced into the overall system.

You might think that I'm opposed to measuring anything then but that's not at all true. I'm a big proponent of measuring those things we want to improve. I'm just a realist and recognize that we have to design our measurements very carefully. If we measure the wrong things, or in the wrong way, we'll drive the wrong behaviours and that's our problem to solve.

#metrics

We’re in the last stretch, aren’t we?

10 days to go, and the campaign is about $1250 away from reaching our final stretch goal — a photo-zine featuring lettering from cemeteries in India for everyone who has pre-ordered the book!

Help @blaft and I cross the finish line by boosting the campaign and sharing it with all the typophiles in your life 💙

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blaft/india-street-lettering-a-book/

It's often noted that toddlers say 'no' a lot because that's what's constantly said to them. Toddlers are just mirroring what they're receiving. Then adults flip out, because they can't cope with being treated the way they treat toddlers.

Far less acknowledged is the way youth are constantly told 'you should'. They come to believe that's the normal way middle aged and elderly people interact, because that's the only way older people interact with them: projecting judgement and instruction. Then adults flip out because they can't stand being spoken to the way they speak to teens.