1 July

There's a tipping point with measuring things where the measure becomes the thing. Medicine has fallen into this trap I think, you'll be treated for 'blood pressure', for example, as if that were some independent thing. Organisations fall onto the same trap with KPIs, and of course we run our societies as economies now, with economic indicators. In each case, we mistake the measure for the thing itself. Statistics - see the word 'State' buried in there - were earlier measures invented to manage societies. They then also took on a life of their own.