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		WalterSear on Nov 2, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How learned helplessness happens in engineering te... Hinkleys's law: A measure that becomes a target might cease to be a good measure, but a target that isn't measured ceases to be a target at all.

kubanczyk on Nov 3, 2021 [–]

Does this law apply also to projects like Linux Kernel or Wikipedia? If not, where does it apply?

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