Enterprise Is Granular Billing

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‘So much of enterprise is just really granular billing.’ Not an argument against units of measurement — of course you need things to measure — but a noticing that an enormous amount of institutional machinery exists to slice and invoice rather than to know. ‘The rules are made up and the points don’t matter,’ said about financial rules that are treated as physical law while being changeable at any moment without notice.

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