I’ve recently been pondering how to motivate workers. I’m mostly interested in how to motivate volunteers in a nonprofit organization — a “cause”. Just a day after writing about it, I found a section in Made to Stick with good insight:
We may mistakenly think that people are motivated by the pursuit of baser needs, while [...]
Not everyone agrees on how to motivate workers. I’m still trying to decide which of these ideas sounds most correct:
Charles Coonradt, author of The Game of Work, gives five reasons why games are better than jobs:
1. Feedback is much more frequent in games, 2. there’s always a score to “reinforce the behavior you want repeated,” [...]
I. Mac and Linux computers come with a command called “rsync” that makes backup and synchronization easy. Every morning before work I synchronize my 4 year old dying Powerbook to my iMac at work. When I get home, I synchronize back. This way, I get my same mail, documents, and music wherever I am, and [...]
Markets are like parking lots.
To get a spot:
Get there early, or
Park where there’s less competition (but you’ll have to walk more), or
Find a proprietary advantage that sets you apart and locks out your competitors
Parking is good when you’ve got two wheels — motorcycle or scooter. Imagine my excitement in finding a shady spot near [...]
This will be the most technical of my posts in the Amtrak series, but it’s not just for computer geeks so stay with me. Here we go.
Ruby on Rails is a “web application framework”, a way for programmers to make web applications more easily and more quickly (and more enjoyably, as its creators would be [...]