Gaia Soykok

Collective rewardsCollective rewards are like bonuses that are allocated to contributors based on how other contributors value their contribution

The need for creativity is intrinsic incentivising heuristic tasks when rewarded, can diminish the intrinsic value.

Become 10-30-50 to escape the career treadmill.Delegate with transparency.Bias for building is a double-edged sword.Focusing illusion leads you astray.Gifted Debaters win the battle, lose the war.

not receiving a reward one had expected to receive is also indistinguishable from being punished.

Specialisation becomes a problem, by serving the unity of knowledge. The polymaths survive in the 19th century by working on the unity of science.

As Jone L. Pearce, associate professor at the Graduate School of Management, University of California at Irvine, wrote in “Why Merit Pay Doesn’t Work: Implications from Organization Theory,” pay for performance actually “impedes the ability of managers to manage.”

people are not very good at dealing with grey areas. for something to be argumentative, the idea should be expressed in extreme opposites. the middle is not to be talked about. so the logic is the same too, in logic, this is called the excluded middle.