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Incentive Design
Entry #0395
The reason an unmeasured task disappears
Effort is allocated across tasks that compete for the same hours. Measuring one of them does not add attention; it moves attention off the others.
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#0395
Measuring one task does not create effort. It withdraws it from whatever was competing, and the loss is invisible because unmeasured work has no series to fall.