About this episode

The episode discusses how metrics may be controlling our lives and features philosopher C. Thi Nguyen.

Have you ever finished a book you dislike just to say you’ve finished it? Have you loaded up Duolingo at 11:55pm to keep the streak alive? Have you felt the crushing disappointment of realising you forgot to record your run for Strava?  If so, metrics might be controlling your life. And philosopher C. Thi Nguyen, my guest on today’s episode of Nudge, thinks that’s a problem. Nguyen believes that our lives are increasingly organised around metrics and that these rankings don’t just track what we value. They replace it. This episode contains some explicit language.  ---  Get Thi’s book The Score: https://amzn.to/4fsqxTD Unlock the Nudge Vaults: ⁠https://www.nudgepodcast.com/vaults⁠  Join 12,411 readers of my newsletter: ⁠https://www.nudgepodcast.com/mailing-list  Connect on LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/phill-agnew/⁠ --- Today’s sources: Nguyen, C. T. (2026). The Score: How to stop playing somebody else's game. Penguin Press.

People in this episode

Host: Phill Agnew

Guest: C. Thi Nguyen

Topics covered

• metrics
• philosophy
• life organization
• value tracking
• disappointment

Keywords

• metrics
• philosophy
• C. Thi Nguyen
• The Score
• life organization
• value
• disappointment

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Penguin Press

Books & works: The Score

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