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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
11.10.2026
Verlag
Independently PublishedSeitenzahl
150
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/0,8 cm
Gewicht
211 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798172577031
The number is improving. So why doesn't that always feel like progress?
We measure because measurement works. Companies track performance. Engineers watch benchmarks. Investors monitor balances. Dieters step on scales. Churches count attendance. Numbers help us see what would otherwise remain fuzzy, and they give us something concrete to improve. Then something strange happens. The measure begins to matter in its own right. Employees learn which numbers keep them out of trouble. Managers trust dashboards that necessarily leave out much of the work beneath them. A scale stops reporting weight and starts whispering things about discipline and worth. The future becomes something we are forever optimizing for while the present waits patiently for its turn. Nobody has to be foolish or dishonest for this to happen. We can make perfectly reasonable decisions, one after another, and still discover that the number has quietly replaced the thing it was supposed to serve. Number Go Up is a funny, humane exploration of that drift. Drawing on nearly three decades in software engineering, as well as his own experiences with work, weight, money, faith, grief, and the stubborn desire to get life right, Michael Collins follows measurement from the corporate dashboard into the more intimate places where numbers begin telling stories they were never designed to tell. This is not an argument against data, ambition, or improvement. It is an invitation to recover proportion: to know when to measure, when to act, when to stop optimizing, and when to simply be present for the life the numbers were meant to help us live. The number can always go higher. The harder thing is remembering what it was meant for.Ein neues Kapitel für Ihre Bücher
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