people optimizing for the metric instead than getting better at working? color me surprised. this has been know for a while by now: if you try to put down har

people optimizing for the metric instead than getting better at working? color me surprised. this has been know for a while by now: if you try to put down hard metrics for creative jobs they just backfire. also managers using reviews to favor their protege and as favor exchange across other managers to partition their resources shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone having worked with humans.