Vanity Metrics vs Capacity Metrics: The Dashboard That Tells You What You Need to Know

Tuesday 16 December 2025
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In This Issue:

  • Why your current dashboard is lying to you
  • The vanity metrics trap: numbers that feel good but change nothing
  • Capacity metrics: what actually predicts business health
  • The Palantir principle: operational consciousness over vanity
  • Building a dashboard that tells you what you need to know

Last week I showed you The Production Line Expansion - why "just take more clients" breaks everything, and how capacity validation actually works.

But here's the question that follows: How do you know when your capacity is validated?

The answer isn't in your Google Analytics. It's not in your social media followers. It's not even in your revenue numbers - at least, not the way most people look at them.

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