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#426 - Ben Bergeron - Stop Living A Life Of Complacency
Modern Wisdom
Is Goodheart's Law a Good Measure?
Goodheart's law is an adage often stated as, when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. An example of that might be, am a target i want to achieve is a measure I want to achieve? To base a target on is the number of email subscribers that i get. But what you've actually meant was, i want people to willingly give me ther email address so that they are glad to receive emales from me on a weekly basis. That was the feel that you wanted. When you're relying on goodhart's law, when you're looking at a measure becoming a target,. it ceases to being a good measure for sure. The intention
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