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Don't leave the dashboard open. Don't put the app on your home screen. Decide that you will look at the numbers for 15 minutes, once a day, or once a week. Outside of that window, the numbers do not exist. You are a ghost to them. If the business is going to burn down, it will do so without your gaze.

"I'll just check the numbers to see how we're doing. Data is empowering." 2. The Flirtation (Noon): "Hmm, that’s up 2%. But why is this down 1%? Let me check the hour-by-hour breakdown." 3. The Fixation (Afternoon): You refresh the page. Nothing changed in the last 14 seconds. You refresh again. You are now refreshing out of spite. 4. The Existential Crash (Evening): The number is red. You feel like a fraud. The number is green. You feel nothing, because the green was not green enough . numeric gazer

The Gospel of the Spreadsheet: Confessions of a Numeric Gazer Don't leave the dashboard open

You will ask for a hand to hold. You will ask for a memory of a laugh. You will ask for the smell of rain. Outside of that window, the numbers do not exist

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