C. Thi Nguyen

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Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee · How To Live An Intentional Life with Professor C Thi Nguyen #670 · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

If you were in the know, if you had the connections to people embedded in law culture, you could get the inside scoop.

But, you know, they were trying to help people like me.

You know, I am an immigrant's kid.

My parents know nothing about the landscape.

And so what they were trying to do was making that information easily digested and accessible.

And they were trying to digest a large number of considerations that you might take as important to make information accessible to me.

That's what portability is.

Portability is accessibility.

And so what you get is actually the big vision is that there's this massive tradeoff between making that information highly digestible and accessible so that everyone can have it.

And simplifying it and removing dimensionality from it in order to make it accessible.

And I think the real, the real, the really terrifying part for me, in some sense, if it turned out that metrics were just evil, the mustache twiddling villain of the story, and we could just move beyond them.

I can imagine a utopia.

But what Porter teaches me is something more painful, which is that there's a thing we need that we have to have, which we have to pay an enormous cost for.

And that's an essential feature of our life together, that in order to communicate with each other at scale, we need these hyper-simplified, highly portable things.

And that is the glue that binds us together, and it's a very costly glue.

Yeah.

Let's back up, because we have to talk about mechanical values, but you said so much interesting stuff.

So there are two things I really want to talk about in what you said.

One thing...

to think is what are metrics good at picking up and what are they bad at picking up?

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