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Anti-patternv1AP-024

Over-monitoring anti-pattern

monitoring everything with excessive metrics that consume more attention than the insights justify, where the feeling of being informed substitutes for the value of acting on information

Why This Is an Anti-Pattern

Inverts monitoring-overhead-tradeoff (Monitoring-overhead-tradeoff pattern). Violates Directed Attention as Depletable Resource (attention finite). Recurs in dashboard addiction, quantified self overload, KPI proliferation.