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Re:How learned helplessness happens in engineering teams by WalterSear on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @05:25PM (#29087582)
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.
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Re:How learned helplessness happens in engineering teams by kubanczyk on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @08:14AM (#29093553)
Does this law apply also to projects like Linux Kernel or Wikipedia? If not, where does it apply?
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