I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too

Edit: Usually these kind of posts only used to have excerpts from books or ancient proverbs, but now I am seeing a lot more quotes from shows/movies/games are also resonating with people. It’s pretty cool to see.

    • Iliveonsaturdays@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Oh this is a great one. I was once in a job, where we were introduced to a new system that was designed to count successes. The problem was, that it was a job where we worked with people and everything we did couldn’t be quantified. The new system only put value on what could be counted so 80% of our work became invisible and “worthless”. Great times.

    • PowerSeries@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Also check out the book “seeing like a state” if you want a whole book version of that quote, including examples in forestry, city design and education.