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If the pizza delivery service shut down, then the social value generated by its deliveries declines, and people will either go hungry or elsewhere. Beckstrom's Law differs from Metcalfe's law, Reed's law and other concepts that proposed that the value of a network was based purely on the size of the network, and in Metcalfe's law, one other ...
Example This is a book review of the 'first sixth' of David Brooks' book, Bobos in Paradise. Astral Codex Ten: "David Brooks’ Bobos In Paradise is an uneven book. The first sixth is a daring historical thesis that touches on every aspect of 20th-century America. The ...
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The fundamental dichotomy suggested here (intrinsic vs. extrinsic) posits that motivations can be distinguished as either arising within and through the individual as a self-regulated phenomenon or by imposition from external sources or structures without a sense of free adoption or adaptation by the subject persons. From Alexander Kjerulf athttp:/...
Another typology, of "Social Value Orientations Categories", from Wikipedia: "Social value orientations are based on the assumption that individuals pursue different goals when making decisions for which the outcomes affect others. Social psychologists generally distinguish between five types of social value orientations. The main difference betwee...
Why Extrinsic Motivation Doesn't Work
From Alfred Kohn: "If a reward — money, awards, praise, or winning a contest — comes to be seen as the reason one is engaging in an activity, that activity will be viewed as less enjoyable in its own right."(http://naggum.no/motivation.html) "extrinsic motivation has some serious drawbacks: 1. It’s not sustainable - As soon as you withdraw the punishment or reward, the motivation disappears. 2. You get diminishing returns - If the punishment or rewards stay at the same levels, motivation slow...
Factors that promote intrinsic motivation
"What enhances intrinsic motivation? This webpagecites some research and lists the factors that create and sustain intrinsic motivation. The list includes: 1. Challenge - Being able to challenge yourself and accomplish new tasks. 1. Control - Having choice over what you do. 1. Cooperation - Being able to work with and help others. 1. Recognition - Getting meaningful, positive recognition for your work. To these I would add: 1. Happiness at work - People who like their job and their workplace...
How to avoid the Crowding Out of intrinsic motivation by extrinsic rewards
From a study by Tobias Assman on Incentives for Participation athttps://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-3/f06/wiki/index.php/Incentives_for_participation: "The effects of external interventions on intrinsic motivation have been attributed to two psychological processes: (a) Impaired self-determination. When individuals perceive an external intervention to reduce their self-determination, they substitute intrinsic motivation by extrinsic control. Following Rotter (1966), the locus of contro...
Alfie Kohn. Punished by Rewards. Info at http://www.alfiekohn.org/books.htm Daniel Pink. Drive. Info at http://www.danpink.com/books/drive
Really great TED talk about the topic by Daniel Pink: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/618Lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJcPodcast about intrinsic motivation at http://positivesharing.com/2006/10/podcast-about-motivation/See our entry on the Crowding Outphenomenon.When the result is that our favorite pizza parlor shows up first when we Google pizza, it’s useful. But when the result is that we only see the information that is aligned with our religious or social or political beliefs, it’s difficult to maintain perspective. Q: Are any ...
Novel: Harvest. Jim Crace. Review Robin Murray (19-6-14): "The scientist Brian Goodwin, reflecting on the evolutionary functions of play, suggested that one of its functions is to introduce disorder into entropied order. In animals, including humans, play is a central ...
1 Introduction. 2 Types of Adaptive Architecture: 3 The role of adaptive architecture in collaborate community development: 4 Current Adaptive Building Technology: 4.1 Pavilions, Skybreaks, Lofts, and Tectonic Architecture: 4.2 Living Structures: 4.3 Unit Module Systems: 4.4 Container Module: 4.5 Modular Post-And-Beam Systems:
Contextual Quote 1. "We may identify the separate origins of Sumer, Egypt, and the Indus as at some time in the fourth to the third millennia bc. The world system begins with their later confluence. David Wilkinson (1989) dates the birth of "Central civilization ...
