alt Hacker News> if companies reported dollars in and dollars out live to shareholders at least we would have an idea of how the company is doing in a general sense.
Goodhart's law is knocking on your door right now.
> if companies reported dollars in and dollars out live to shareholders at least we would have an idea of how the company is doing in a general sense.
Goodhart's law is knocking on your door right now.
Help me understand what you are saying here. For those that don't know this one is "a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".
I'm not advocating for a single metric that can be gamed. A business is fundamentally about dollars in and dollars out. Maybe add receivables in there and a few other metrics from the P&L. I'm not trying to be prescriptive here on purely cash in and out.
I do think there is a low friction way that companies could report daily certain metrics that over time would give their shareholders a sense of the company's health and trajectory.