Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Clear goals plus a measure that drives progress toward them can achieve amazing progress, yet this is surprisingly rarely done well
Drawn from what Bill Gates said
What Bill Gates actually said
- Bill Gates Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation
You can achieve amazing progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal-in a feedback loop similar to the one Rosen describes. This may seem pretty basic, but it is amazing to me how often it is not done and how hard it is to get right.
Where this was said
↗2013 Annual Letter: Measuring Progressgatesfoundation.org
All 4 korrents from this piecethis one is 1st
Added to korrents 3 Oct 2026 · How quotes work · Something wrong? Tell us
Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?
I hold this tooRelated korrents
Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.