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dav_Oztoday at 5:11 PM2 repliesview on HN

While at some point in the optimization game Goodhart’s Law will also apply here, before that happens I thoroughly enjoyed the insights from reading it and will try implementing some version of it to gauge my productivity before jumping to another metric always aware of the abyss, the ultimate procrastination: being unproductive by trying too hard to optimize productivity.

Unproductivity is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my unproductivity. I will let it pass through me. When it is gone, only action will remain.

Jump!


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cancantoday at 5:29 PM

Definitely agree with your assessment. That’s the feeling I wanted to convey at the end. The goal is to make people aware it’s not their fault but they have some things they can try to make things better for them.

analog31today at 7:38 PM

>>> While at some point in the optimization game Goodhart’s Law will also apply here...

The tools for surveilling and enforcing "collaboration" can probably be reprogrammed to measure "flow."