Overpowered Metrics Eat Underspecified Goals
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Overpowered Metrics Eat Underspecified Goals
When we don’t know what we’re really trying to achieve, all change is arbitrary.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress. A
James Clear • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
clarity—clarity in the setting of goals, the communication of those goals throughout the organization, the establishment of metrics, and the use of those metrics in gauging the success or failure of any initiative.
John Rossman • The Amazon Way: 14 Leadership Principles Behind the World's Most Disruptive Company
There’s a toolbox of reusable concepts for analyzing systems I would call “inadequate”—the causes of civilizational failure, some of which correspond to local opportunities to do better yourself. I shall, somewhat arbitrarily, sort these concepts into three larger categories: Decisionmakers who are not beneficiaries; Asymmetric information; and abo
... See moreEliezer Yudkowsky • Inadequate Equilibria
Yet what the book is about is that we have a tendency in our culture, a strong tendency, to basically design everything that we do around exactly that archetype, which is that let's set a goal, stay on our objective, and then let's set some metric so we can decide how close we're going to that goal, and then let's put all our effort into just movin... See more