This suggests a course of action if you work at a company which can have significant positive externalities and cares, during good times, more than zero about them: during those good times, create dashboards and alerts with metrics which correlate with those externalities, to add trivial friction (in the form of “number go down feels bad”) to burning the commons during bad times.
This suggests a course of action if you work at a company which can have significant positive externalities and cares, during good times, more than zero about them: during those good times, create dashboards and alerts with metrics which correlate with those externalities, to add trivial friction (in the form of “number go down feels bad”) to burning the commons during bad times.