Posted: Jun 03, 2010 7:18 am
akigr8 wrote:
Thanks for the input, and link.
I'm not knowledgeable in this area to give valuable input back.
Googling a bit for info I found out is a lecture by Daniel Pink, he has written a book on the subject. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_H._Pink
http://www.danpink.com/drive
TED video http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_mo ... ted.com_2U
I see it gets flack from the commenters on this book review http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... sing-truth
Yeah he seems to be trying to make some massive counter-intuitive point probably in order to sell a few books and get a bit of recognition. The unfortunate part is that he's mostly basing it on flawed historical research; i.e., the idea that incentives decrease motivation or performance is simply flat out wrong. In reality what he actually shows is that perception of value is not exponential and that making a task more difficult lowers performance.
It's mostly just misrepresentation, misunderstanding and poor research.. but I guess whores will have their trinkets..
akigr8 wrote:OT @ Samsa: Using Rockbox now on my mp3-player, installed it a couple of days ago. Sweet
Excellent! I installed Linux on my system a couple of months ago, following my rockbox obsession, and currently loving it. I've also bought a netbook/ebook reader thing as well that I have to pick up sometime in the weekend with Google Android on, so I'm excited to see how it goes.