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Why not Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive:_The_Surprising_Truth_About_What_Motivates_Us https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive:_

• peterburkimsher 5y ago
  Perhaps they overlap? I'd even hypothesise that they overlap with solving the 2 hard problems. There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. -- Phil Karlton, Leon Bamboogiewoogie @secretGeek, Martin Fowler https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html • Naming things >> Technology -> Cool Stuff to Work On >> Purpose — The desire to do something that has meaning and is important. • Cache invalidation (forgetfulness) >> Intellection -> Smart People to Work With >> Mastery — The urge to get better skilled. • Off-by-1 errors (self or greater Good) >> Certainty -> Repeatability in Work Environment >> Autonomy — Our desire to be self directed. It increases engagement over compliance.
• cushychicken 5y ago
  I think they are closely related. Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose strike me as strategic, thirty thousand foot values that correlate heavily with career satisfaction. I think the desire for Technology, Intellection, and Certainty are more tactical considerations that engineers want in their day to day duties. I find that those tare things that engineers can easily visualize themselves having access to in a new role. These feed into a feeling (or the hope of feeling) a sense of Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose in their career as a whole.