🥩 Red Meat Friday: Goodhart’s Law At Amazon (opens in new tab)

You would think that by now every organization on earth would have heard of Goodhart’s law. The law can be briefly stated as, “When a measure is used as a target, it ceases to be a measure.” We see the law in action all the time.

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