"value collapse" is something I've noticed somewhat with myself and others, using the @CompliceGoals app to track their goals ...the system works a bit too well! if you don't put in a social goal, you can find yourself neglecting your social life, etc
Value collapse from goal tracking, and framing goals without metrics
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ultimately this is a pretty cool thing, and Complice is good at keeping your goals fluid and evolving
like insofar as metrics cause goodharting and narrow-mindedness, Complice is pretty good on that front
here's our concept of goal. no metric required!
Complice invites you to frame goals in ways that evoke a feeling that you can cultivate more of by orienting towards the goal
and the misc or overall sections of the weekly review can be used to balance things out eg I don't have a health/fitness goal or a money goal right now, but I have a couple of questions related to that that I check in on weekly
as with systems-vs-goals, it seems like there's a similar thing here, where clarifying goals/values is useful but can have drawbacks, and there's ways to mitigate those
I think it's possible to be living a life that's very vividly moving towards what you want, while having those wants be very open-ended but it might be easier for some people to go from daydreamer to hitting explicit goals (eg @bmndr) than straight to pursuing nebulous desires
for those who haven't explored the Complice approach yet, check it out here and let me know what you think and how it might be able to thread this needle even better! complice.co