C. Thi Nguyen

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3,183 appearances 5 recordings 5 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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Two Percent with Michael Easter · #25: Why Numbers, Scores, and Metrics Make Life Worse | Thi Nguyen · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

So I think like what this teaches me is not that like scoring systems are bad and metrics are bad, but that they are sometimes useful things that we can manage carefully and can be incredibly powerful when we manage them carefully.

And then, I mean, I think there are so many people for whom using the Fitbit is a great motivator and gets them exercising in the beginning.

And then you get people who are like, well, I can't rock climb even though I love it.

Wait, I have a really...

devastating factoid.

Okay.

Wait, I have two devastating factoids for you that didn't make it into the book.

We love devastating factoids.

Send them.

I love the comment about how it's super useful if you have no sensibility.

A lot of these scores are very, very, very rough proxies.

Totally.

And if you have no sensibility in the area...

I also had the same thing with nutrition, actually.

When I started nutrition tracking with no awareness, it was actually awesome.

I had no idea.

I had no idea how many carbs were in things.

And it took me a while to realize...

I needed that information to get through my thick skull that a massively carb and cheese heavy thing made me sleepy and then tired the whole next day.

I just didn't have enough sensitivity to my body to do that.

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