Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/05/2025But all of this is nerd shit. The prevailing problem solving method resembles the old army joke: - Go dig a trench. - How long should the trench be? - From this fencepost, until lunchtime. 21347
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/05/2025An example of what happens when you have bad leading indicators: someone here decided that "# of users clicking" was a good leading indicator - so the designer is optimizing for # of clicks rather than usefulness. Alt text: a notification that says "heat risk change" but not what the change is. 21048
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/05/2025This is Goodhart's Law in action: “a measure that becomes a target ceases to be a good measure.” It comes from shitty managers who bought the lie "if you can't measure it, you can't manage it." As a result, the leading indicator "# of clicks" became its own goal, divorced from any downstream value. 313016
Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Either the person you’re quoting has me blocked or vice versa 100
