The cobra effect: a policy designed to solve a problem that makes it worse by changing the incentives.
Every organisation has one.
Before you set a target, ask: how might someone reasonably game this? The answer often redesigns the metric before it causes harm.
If you give someone a raise he's gonna slow down.
If you don't he's works later.
Have you heard the theoretical origin story of the Cobra Effect, which is a Perverse Incentive?
In colonized India, the Brits were concerned about the vast population of cobras. So they offered a bounty on them.
Indians gamed the system, breeding cobras and selling them for the bounty. When the Brits found out, breeders released them into the wild. This inadvertent effect is the Cobra Effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
#Psychology #CobraEffect #PerverseIncentive #India #UK #Colonization
Bald wirds in Gaschurn die ersten Maikäfer-Farmen geben.
Die Gemeinde Gaschurn hat einen ungewöhnlichen Aufruf gestartet: Wer einen 5-Liter-Kübel voll mit Maikäfern beim Altstoffsammelzentrum abgibt, bekommt eine Freikarte fürs Schwimmbad. Damit will man die Maikäfer-Plage in der Gemeinde in den Griff bekommen.
In your API work, have you ever experienced a Cobra Effect moment🐍? In the latest Net API Notes, I explore the surprising parallels between colonial bounties and modern-day API metrics. From Cobras to Code, discover why the metrics we choose matter more than you think! 📊🔍 #APIMetrics #CobraEffect #SystemsThinking
https://netapinotes.substack.com/p/what-the-cobra-effect-says-about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIHi9yH6UB0
#Google #YouTube #AdBlock #AdBlockBlock #Enshittification #CobraEffect #Capitalism #Greed #TheOldWebIsDying
Youtube and others want their users to disable adblockers to increase their revenue from advertisements, but will forcing the users to so do be effective in ...
Simon Whatley
jnpn
Mark Wyner Won’t Comply 
FlowChainSensei
Matthew Reinbold
ʙwɑnɑ нoɴoʟʊʟʊ 
AmberWavesoFlame
David Christmas