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> You chase after vanity metrics about you looking good like active users rather than how useful your product is.

In what conceivable world is "active users" a vanity metric??

It doesn't encapsulate the abstract goal you're trying to achieve, which might be value to the user. Heroin has many active users, but some might argue that heroin doesn't maximize value/usefulness for the user over the long run.

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