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"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." - Goodhart’s Law


We're not cogs in a machine. We are so much more than that. When we put all the emphasis on metrics (the way we measure shit) we lose sight of what we're trying to produce and instead we focus on scoring well.


The sources:

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Taylorism
  2. More Perfect Union's expose on spyware at work.
  3. Ronan Farrow's "Bossware" video
  4. https://slack.green/en/blog/what-is-bossware
  5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_monitoring_software


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