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Halcyon's aim is to help you reflect on how you can better deal with related change in your own life.

What's Changing? - Measurement

Measurement

 

Please see below selected recent measurement-related change.

 

2018

  • Quartz warned that, in an increasingly digital world with growing concerns about sustainability, dismay is mounting about the use of GDP as the benchmark measure for a nation’s economy. It fails to take into account other things that could be more valuable indicators about how a country is doing, such as inequality, well-being, happiness, clean air, and climate-change mitigation.

 

Pre 2018

  • Einstein noted that "not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted".  Nevertheless, new devices that monitor activity, sleep, diet, and even mood claim that they can make us healthier and more productive.
  • Indeed, a growing number of “self-quantifiers" have begun applying a tenet of the computer business to their personal health.  Much as an engineer will analyse data and tweak specifications in order to optimise a software program, people are ­collecting and correlating data on the “inputs and outputs” of their bodies to optimise physical and mental performance.
  • Meanwhile, more and more countries are putting quality-of-life, or so-called "happiness indicators", into their measurement of societal growth.
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