Hobbs actually says that the real source of political power, the ultimate form of political power is not military strength or might or even economic strength.

It's power over language.

Because if you can dictate to them what success and failure mean, then you can control them from

the inside. And these are the stakes, I think. What metrics actually are, a way of fixing what counts

a success and fixing what we should all be moving towards.

And if there's some systematic slippage between what actually matters and the kinds of things that's easy to build metrics about, then our entire internal guidance system is going

to be deeply rewritten at its core based on somebody else's values.

Thank you. core based on somebody else's values. That's teen Wynne.

He's an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Utah who specializes in the

philosophy of games and technology, as well as the theory of value.

He's also the author of The Score, How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game,

which I loved reading. A lot of T's philosophical insights have huge implications for how we

behave at work. So you'll learn one how metrics can co-opt our values and behavior. Two,

the hidden costs of the desire to quantify everything. And three, why the wrong people so often

seem to get ahead. And if you want a quick

summary write up of some actionable takeaways that T shares, I recommend you to sign up for the free

golden nugget email newsletter which you can find over at awesome at your job.com. I'm Pete McItis.

This is How to Be Awesome at your job. And now here's T.

Tea, welcome.

Hello, hello.

Well, I am so excited.

We have a learned philosopher here.

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