tl;dr version:

- Use not one, but many metrics (article mentioned 600)

- Recognize that some metrics you control directly (input metrics) and others you want to but can’t (output metrics).

- Constantly refine metrics and your causal model between inputs and outputs. (Article mentions weekly 60-90min reviews)

Edit: crucial part, all consumers of these metrics (all leadership) is in this.

Seems like the headline should be:

Is Goodhart's Law as useful as you think?

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What does “Law” mean in this case?

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I suspect next months article will be pay for performance as measured by lines of code and production issues. Prepare for a 10x increase in code base and zero production changes until after bonuses hit the bank.