TLDR Web Dev · MISCELLANEOUS

BEWARE OF ALL GREEN DASHBOARDS

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Jeff Bezos once discussed the dangers of using metrics as proxies in an interview. He observed how over time, companies would find themselves blindly managing to a metric without understanding the true underlying purpose the metric was supposed to serve as a proxy for. If all metrics on your dashboard are green, there’s probably something you’re not measuring correctly (or at all).