David & Mike discuss Goodhart's Law, why effort matters more than outcomes, and how to maintain a healthy relationship with the numbers you use to keep score.

Links and Show Notes:

Deep Focus: Extended ad-free episodes with bonus deep dive content.

Video for this episode

Mike's Amplify Cohort

Focused #260: Quarterly Planning and Riding Roller Coasters

Focused #259: Nobody's Perfect, with Kathy Campbell

The Score by C. Thi Nguyen

Happy Scale

Insta360 Luna Ultra

Macstock Conference

Insta360 Mic Pro

Insta360 Mic Air

Ugmonk Analog

Field Notes

Apple: The First 50 Years by David Pogue

Mac Power Users #839: Fifty Years of Apple with David Pogue

Women of Walt Disney Imagineering by Ginger Zee

Focused #257: I Go By Vibes, with Stephen Robles

Read Between The Lynes

On B.S. by Harry Frankfurt

Don't Call it Art by Austin Kleon