My father has a book where, ever since I started playing games... he wrote down the games that I played in. And then, when I did my website, we thought that was a really good idea, that people can keep track of my games.
I like seeing my physical progress through a volume, particularly if it's a big book.
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
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Money doesn't motivate, but stats do.
In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.
All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. What I did was bring that kid in at 5:00 in the morning, and he would run the stairs from the bottom to the top until I told him to quit.
I'm a keep-score guy; I always have been.
The signal of the importance of something is whether you're actually measuring it and you're holding people accountable to improving those numbers.
It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis.
It's always important to score even if it is not in an official game.
You have to find your projects and track them as they go along that long process of being made.
The city of Johannesburg built an app because they are getting so many complaints on Facebook and Twitter about potholes. The app allows you to report a pot hole and take a picture of it. Then, you can actually track the progress in terms of the repair, when it happened.
I have odometer readings, kids; all sorts of measurements of what I've been doing for the last 20 years. I get it. I get that it was a while ago.
You make a record because you have to chart your progress, not only for yourself, but for your audience.