#2899: Goodhart's Law
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[Cueball and White Hat are standing and talking, White Hat with hand on his chin.]
Cueball: When a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric.
White Hat: Sounds bad. Let's offer a bonus to anyone who identifies a metric that has become a target.
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:[later] I'm pleased to report we're now identifying and replacing hundreds of outdated metrics per hour.