Sentences with phrase «of arbitrary goals»

Create a platform that can reliably sell books, because if we try to tear away those kinds of arbitrary goals of hitting the best seller list, and we look at why we're doing this, we're writing, there's easier ways to make money.

Not exact matches

If you are lax about goals in the beginning but become vigilant about them all of the sudden, then your team will sense that you're reacting to pressure and creating arbitrary goals, which can undercut your credibility.

Musk, who several months ago demoted Eberhard to president of technology and installed an interim CEO, argues that Tesla is a hit precisely because he hasn't sacrificed the car's performance to meet any arbitrary near - term goal.

«Goal setting keeps you focused on arbitrary metrics and vision plans; the actual process keeps you in the present and focused on what's right in front of you,» Alex Nerney, co-founder of Create and Go, told me in an email.

Likewise, there are examples of where gamification goes wrong by emphasizing arbitrary rewards over end goals that benefit both the customer AND the business selling to them.

For Merleau - Ponty, the self's spontaneous interpretative abilities are not capricious or arbitrary; rather, they are teleologically governed by the goal of achieving a certain equilibrium with the world.

She said «low - skilled migration is too high, overall migration from the EU is too high», but said she opposed an arbitrary EU migration target, adding that the goal of reducing EU migration was designed to prevent a race to the bottom by employers.

No, the Tea Party will support the space program only if we tether our efforts to an arbitrary timeframe, a simplistic goal, and a meaningless patriotic gesture: We will put an American on Callisto by 2023, and he will plant a flag made of guns!

So don't set an arbitrary goal to lose a certain amount of weight.

Average scale scores are a better measure of central tendency compared to percent of students at proficient or goal because scale scores do not lump students status levels at arbitrary cut points.

Resist the temptation of setting arbitrary improvement goals such as «increase by 5 percent.»

The more specific goal of her case was to seek a judgment: (1) setting aside or vacating Sheri's individual growth score and rating her as «ineffective,» and (2) declare that the New York endorsed and implemented growth measures in use was / is «arbitrary and capricious.»

In this white paper, Prof. Roberto Bifulco (Maxwell School, Syracuse University) reflects on the proper goals of the target - setting process and offers the authorizers a series of recommendations, including the use of longitudinal, cohort comparisons; and the use of statistical confidence intervals to set enrollment targets that are appropriately flexible but not arbitrary.

Others take a similar approach but instead of setting an arbitrary income requirement for their retirement (whether traditional or early), instead they have a goal of retiring without reduction in their current level of income.

The bottomline for an investor is to earn enough returns to achieve their financial goals — not some arbitrary score of how many indices they beat over their investing career.

The adoption goal of 9,000 is not arbitrary.

Some moons can be spotted sitting atop tall buildings or dangling below out of reach ledges, giving players a concrete goal, while others are unlocked by seemly arbitrary actions like... sitting on a park bench.

There are also community challenges, and if the community is successful at destroying X amount of scarabs or some other arbitrary goal, then a prize is delivered to the community chest back in your game's hub.

Rather than simply have a seemingly arbitrary level you have to achieve to advance the story it feels more like you constantly have a lot of short term goals that you can accomplish in not too much time.

In this spirit, many of his works are sequences showing attempts at accomplishing an arbitrary goal, such as Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (1973), in which the artist attempted to do just that, photographing the results, and eventually selecting the «best out of 36 tries», with 36 being the determining number just because that is the standard number of shots on a roll of 35 mm film.

We are made to fall in love with an arbitrary set of stereotypes, physical ideals or cultural goals that are twisted and often deeply damaging to us.

The experiments have at times been extreme — wearing a uniform for months on end, exploring limitations of living space, and living without measured time — yet one of the most important goals of this work is to illuminate how we attribute significance to chosen structures or ways of life and how arbitrary such a choice can be.

The Paris Climate Accord, which incorporated environmental pledges from countries around the world, failed to meet any type of arbitrary climate goal.

PP, What does imperfect data have to do with arbitrary systematic adjustments of data to fit the desired goal?

In case of continuous variables there is no way around the fact that our largely arbitrary choices influence the outcome of our analysis, when our goal is to make inferences on the statistical properties of variables that can be used to describe the real world.

The far left of the Democratic Party generally favors the arbitrary so - called 80 by 50 goal — 80 percent CO2 reductions by 2050 — in the US and presumably elsewhere.

To have a chance of solving things, the whole system needs to change, starting with the economic fallacies on which policies are based (for instance, the arbitrary number that represents GNP growth is the ultimate goal of society and must therefore eternally grow bigger and bigger and bigger, faster).

The choice of 120 kWh / m2 / yr is essentially arbitrary, but that is fine: most other programs are also arbitrary in their aims such as 50 % less than current housing (Architecture2030.org), or a 40 % reduction over some code benchmark, or zero net energy consumption over a year (the Building America program goal).

Typically their motivation to run an employment background check stems from a need to satisfy some real or arbitrary requirement and they're not necessarily focused on the bigger picture of how their efforts contribute to the overarching goals of the organization.

I believe many of us, me included, get caught up in the pursuits of other people's often arbitrary goals.

I use the LLCs for liability protection so my goal is to minimize my exposure in each LLC, not some arbitrary number such as the number of properties.