When Steve Jobs set goals, he kept them shockingly simple and didn't include any metrics or benchmarks.
Are specific, measurable goals a waste of time?
Just came across this weekly sprint update template from @ycombinator
Feels like this sort of fast, informal accountability + reporting would be suuuper useful to a lot of people who have just started working on something new
“... Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.”
Linear doesn’t have metrics goals - the founder thinks setting specific metric goals can lead them astray. Product goals should be about how we solve our customers’ problems better.