On this episode of Focused, Mike and I take apart our complicated relationship with measurement. We start with Goodhart’s Law, the idea that a number stops measuring the thing you cared about the moment it becomes the target, and follow that through law school rankings and grades.
Metrics can be useful, but are also dangerous. In this episode we explain why.
Episode Links
- The Score by C. Thi Nguyen
- Amplify Cohort
- Insta360 Luna Ultra
- Ugmonk Analog
- Apple: The First 50 Years by David Pogue
- Mac Power Users 839: Fifty Years of Apple with David Pogue
- Read Between the Lynes
- On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
- Don’t Call It Art by Austin Kleon
- Women of Walt Disney Imagineering
- The Morality of Happiness by Julia Annas
- Macstock Conference & Expo
Written by David Sparks
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