Chasing Excellence

Chasing Excellence

The Scale Is Not the Goal

Daily Chase #301

Aug 04, 2026
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a bathroom scale sitting on top of a wooden table
Photo by Joachim Schnürle on Unsplash

There’s a principle called Goodhart’s Law: when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

It sounds abstract, but the bathroom scale makes it concrete.

We start tracking our weight because it’s a useful signal — one data point among many that reflects how we’re eating, sleeping, and moving. But somewh…

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