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Measurement

Measuring what matters: tracking outcomes rather than proxies and avoiding the trap of optimizing the score instead of the result.
Wooden ruler lying diagonally on sage green background with shallow depth of field — measurement over optimization.
Measurement

Why Measurement Beats Optimization (And Why I Keep Having to Remind Myself)

About six months into building COS, I spent a week rewriting the output format for one of the scoring dimensions. The reports looked cleaner. The language was tighter. I felt good about the work. Then I realized I had no data on whether users were actually reading that section of
03 Sep 2026 3 min read
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