@tavelarocque: Day 81 of the @HigherUpWellness speak your mind challenge. when the government paid people to kill cobras, the number of cobras exploded. here's why. colonial british india had too many venomous cobras, so the government offered a bounty, cash for every dead snake. but the locals started breeding cobras on purpose, to kill them and collect the reward. when the government found out and scrapped the bounty, the breeders released their now-worthless snakes, and the city ended up with more cobras than when they started. economists call it the cobra effect. the moment you reward a number instead of the outcome you actually want, people optimize the number and abandon the goal. you do it to yourself too. chase the follower count, not the work. the look of the thing instead of the thing. whatever you measure is what you get, even if it destroys what you actually wanted. so be very careful what you decide to count. #psychology #economics #mindset #discipline #india

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