Overpowered Metrics Eat Underspecified Goals
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Overpowered Metrics Eat Underspecified Goals
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When we don’t know what we’re really trying to achieve, all change is arbitrary.
Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress. A
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.
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
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