It's a kind of mechanistic world that we'd all love to live in where, effectively, it sits very nicely on spreadsheets, and the amount you spend on something is proportionate to the scale of your success.
我们都喜欢生活在一个 符合机械理论的世界里 所有的事物都可以通过数据 清晰地在电子表格上表示出来 而你在事物上所花的时间 将与你的收效成正比