If you’re lucky, your job will have some objective measure for your position’s success. Maybe it’s total sales made, machines serviced, revenue generated, pageviews reached, whatever. These metrics give you a hard, unbiased look at where you are and where you want to be, and can be a bulwark against bosses that may or may not have your best interests at heart.

Performance metrics are usually private. A lot of times, it’s just you and your boss and company leadership that have access to them. Some sales teams or other competitive groups have leaderboards where folks can see how they’re doing within the team.

But even in those scenarios, your performance metrics aren’t public. Your Twitter followers can’t look up to see how many cars you’ve sold, or when you’ve sold your cars, or what your

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