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Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day (arstechnica.com)
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[-] assertnull@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

makes KPIs, a measuring tool, the target which as any statistician will tell you that when you make the measurement a target it ceases to be a good measuring tool

This came up recently elsewhere and is known as “Goodhart’s Law”

this post was submitted on 16 May 2026
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