Choosing your metrics, KPIs, etc...

how to measure what matters + philosophical musings on whether the important things can be measured

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Too Much Efficiency Makes Everything Worse: Overfitting and the Strong Version of Goodhart's Law

Jascha Sohl-Dickstein sohl-dickstein.github.io

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Human pain is too abstract to be represented in spreadsheets.

Craig Mod • Offscreen Magazine Interview

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Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

John Doerr • 8 highlights

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Cover of Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

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Metrics, Incrementalism, and Local Maxima

Andrew Kortina kortina.nyc

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Overpowered Metrics Eat Underspecified Goals

ribbonfarm.com

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It’s wild that some mid level PM is making design tweaks for “retention” and ends up completely tearing the entire fabric of our society into a downward spiral of gamified virtual hot people musical chairs. “What if we added a bursting emoji heart?!” = Birthrates fall to zero

John Fio x.com

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The Tyranny of Numbers - By Thomas J Bevan - The Commonplace

Thomas Bevan thomasjbevan.substack.com

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Which leads on to my next point. See, not only do numbers not capture what matters (love, happiness, awe, spirituality, creativity are by definition unquantifiable beyond mere surface appearances) they are also extremely open to manipulation.

thomasjbevan.substack.com • The Tyranny of Numbers - By Thomas J Bevan - The Commonplace

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