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Employees’ work life can satisfy external criteria for self-worth and can be an important forum for self-expression.

Coinbase is a recommendation company Gokul recommends for working in. ( This has not aged well :D)

Punishment and rewards are actually two sides of the same coin. Both have a punitive effect because they are manipulative.

All other variables equal, knowing and utilizing the metagame gives the player the maximum chance to win the game.In the bull-market-thrill-crypto video game, there’s a metagame too. Knowing and understanding the metagame is not required to score some wins, but pretty important

The free rider effect appears when the winner firm of an R&D race is not capable of appropriating the full revenue of its innovation

the context of capital markets for R&D, information asymmetry between entrepreneurs and investors creates market failures (e.g. credit rationing) that call for efficient contractual arrangements to mitigate its negative effects.

the effects on externally mediated rewards in intrinsic motivation - Edward desci - when money is used intrinsic motivation decreased, while verbal positive rewards increased the motivation.

Sawyer Effect as “practices that can either turn play into work or work into play,” after Tom Sawyer, who tricked his friends into painting a fence for him by convincing them it was fun