I am not usually one to set myself hard, quantifiable goals and try to stick with them. Life deals us with enough KPIs and grades, I don’t want my personal time to also become dominated by chasing numbers. My statistics and development courses have also taught me to be wary of indicators in general, pithily summarized by Goodhart’s Law: “when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”
Books I read in 2022
Books I read in 2022
Books I read in 2022
I am not usually one to set myself hard, quantifiable goals and try to stick with them. Life deals us with enough KPIs and grades, I don’t want my personal time to also become dominated by chasing numbers. My statistics and development courses have also taught me to be wary of indicators in general, pithily summarized by Goodhart’s Law: “when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”