11/24/2025
Goodhart's Law: when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
Have you ever worked so hard learning to shoot a particular drill, that you realize that you can't shoot anything else? Yeah. I did that to myself with my Willinacci sequence. I allowed the metric, in this case a group size to become a goal to be achieved. I shot some tiny groups, very slowly. It cost me dearly in my ability to shoot fast. Sigh, time to start over training my most challenging student: ME.
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