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Uhh. No. One of my best CS professors used to say: "Competition is for horses" The _right_ way to motivate your hackers is to give them interesting stuff to d
by aditya 17y ago
Uhh. No.
One of my best CS professors used to say: "Competition is for horses"
The _right_ way to motivate your hackers is to give them interesting stuff to do so that you can watch as they fall in love with the stuff they're doing and achieve inhuman-seeming goals fueled by caffeine and pure joy for their work.
Not some stupid motivational analogy from "a quality control manager in a hospital".
- edw519 17y ago"...achieve inhuman-seeming goals fueled by caffeine and pure joy for their work..." Exactly! There's almost nothing that can motivate me when I'm "done for the day". Not deadlines, budgets, help, dinner, not even money. OTOH, there's almost nothing that can get me to knock off for the day when I'm "in the zone". Just yesterday, someone spent 5 minutes showing me something that turned out to be the missing link in 3 different places in my app. Six hours later, I looked up and realized that everyone was gone and the lights were out. Six of the most fun hours in a long time. You can't engineer that into your workplace.
- jcapote 17y agoNailed it.