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Mental Model

Proxy

PR
General Thinking & Meta-Models

A proxy is a stand-in: you use one thing to represent another when the thing you care about is hard to observe or measure directly. Revenue is a proxy for value created; NPS is a...

The core idea

A proxy is a stand-in: you use one thing to represent another when the thing you care about is hard to observe or measure directly. Revenue is a proxy for value created; NPS is a...

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