{"id":692,"date":"2024-12-20T05:03:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T05:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/20\/getting-attention-is-easy-focusing-it-is-not-167366-aspx\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T05:03:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T05:03:05","slug":"getting-attention-is-easy-focusing-it-is-not-167366-aspx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/20\/getting-attention-is-easy-focusing-it-is-not-167366-aspx\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Attention Is Easy; Focusing It Is Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Getting Attention Is Easy; Focusing It Is Not<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>I once wrote an article titled &#8220;Do Your Metrics Matter?&#8221; It was inspired by the joy of sitting in an airplane, at the gate, going nowhere fast for close to 2 hours. All the while the airline app was proclaiming an on-time departure. Having ample time to discuss this perceived error with the crew, I learned that the closed aircraft door equaled departure. Departed, it turned out, was not an indication of a flight in motion but a process gone awry (a circumstance that may persist to this day, for what it&#8217;s worth).<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbta.com\/BigDataQuarterly\/Articles\/Getting-Attention-Is-Easy-Focusing-It-Is-Not-167366.aspx\">Go to dbta<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting Attention Is Easy; Focusing It Is Not I once wrote an article titled &#8220;Do Your Metrics Matter?&#8221; It was inspired by the joy of sitting in an airplane, at the gate, going nowhere fast for close to 2 hours. All the while the airline app was proclaiming an on-time departure. Having ample time to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dbta","tag-dbta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}