1888 || when the measure becomes the target

Make Your Damn Bed · Oct 29, 2026 · 11m

"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:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Taylorism

More Perfect Union's expose on spyware at work.

Ronan Farrow's "Bossware" video

https://slack.green/en/blog/what-is-bossware

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_monitoring_software

Other important stuff:

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