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The good ol' measuring inputs, not outputs...

(Other inputs from days of yore: number of people that report to you, budget allocation to your team. Nothing new under the sun!)

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Is there an xyz's law for this yet? Will add - lines of code (as long as you don't believe code is the product/output).

There's Goodhart's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

There it is. Thanks!



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