#Goal-Setting
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Goal setting for productive engineers
The post contrasts top-down goals with tiny experiments for engineers working in unstable environments, using the motivation equation to explain when each approach helps or fails.
Goals fail twice: no daily feedback, no scaffolding
Pure goal thinking fails on two axes — it offers no signal until the end, and once hit (or missed) there's no structure left to keep you moving.
Richest Man in Babylon and the 10% rule
The save 10% of everything that comes in rule turns a finance goal into a system — the destination becomes inevitable instead of aspirational.
How Facebook Sets Goals - Analytics at Meta
The article explains Facebook’s goal map, how team goals ladder up to org and company goals, how goal tiering and countermetrics shape prioritization, and how targets are set and measured.
Management by objectives
Management by objectives defines organizational goals so managers and employees agree on what to do, measure performance against standards, and link results to incentives, while critics warn about poor fit and misuse.