On Zombies and Evaluation

You have to respect Zombies.

I mean they know what they want. And then they go after that thing at all cost.

Brains. Brains. Brains. Brains.

They are incredibly persistent. They don’t let something like death or a loss of limbs stop them from their mission.

Brains. Brains. Brains. Brains.

Have you ever wondered if at some point one Zombie stepped up and said to another Zombie, “What is this all for, why are we doing this, to what end?”

Of course I think we all know what the response would look like.

Brains. Brains. Brains. Brains.

I think the reason monsters like zombies have resonated with so many people is that we can relate. Sometimes it feels like the things we are doing are not connected to anything. But we keep doing them.

Because that’s just the way it is. That’s what we’ve always done.

Brains. Brains. Brains. Brains.

So how do we challenge that? How do we confront the brain seekers. Are they so unchangeable, so unredeemable, as Zombies are often shown.

Or can we convince them that brains are just an output?

And the real goal, the desired outcome, is something bigger.

Brains. Brains. Brains. Brains.

The cartoon I drew above is how I think a zombie evaluator would think through this particular challenge.

The pessimist in me sees a zombie data scientist modeling a more efficient way to get brains. It also sees a zombie executive director firing the zombie evaluator and promoting the zombie data scientist.

Because do we want a challenge?

Or do we just want…

Brains. Brains. Brains. Brains.